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While sub-machine-gunners of the Chicago gangster type assassinated the chief of Cuba's Secret Police and two aides who were riding in his car (TIME, July 18) Motorcycle Policeman Felix del Cristo ("Felix of the Christ") hid behind a monumental beacon, neither chased the gangster car nor took its number...
They have been off on week-ends and house parties. They have smoked in the Old Howard, and they have dined on Beacon Hill. They have tried for magnas and they have tried for C's. They have lived for four terribly short years in the richest, greatest, most impersonal, greatly loved, best known, most revered, finest University in America. And now they are graduating. Four days of foam upon a charted ocean. Who would not weep for Adonais...
Died. Hugh Chalmers, 58, oldtime motormaker, onetime president of Chalmers Motor Co. (merged with Chrysler) and Chalkis Manufacturing Co. (antiaircraft guns); of pneumonia; in Beacon...
...climbed aboard the car which straddles the channel, grinned happily as it scooted along, throwing spray from its towing apparatus. (Next day Mr. Wright visited Kitty Hawk. N. C.; strolled about Kill Devil Hill where he and his late brother Wilbur made the first airplane flight, saw the memorial beacon being erected there...
...proved Harry Kendall Thaw mentally deranged, kept the Pittsburgh socialite from electrocution for the shooting of Architect Stanford White. Madman Thaw declared himself bankrupt, but said to Dr. Jelliffe, "Stick along, I'll pay you when I'm released" (from the Matteawan State Hospital at Beacon, N. Y.). Last week Dr. Jelliffe, 66, sued free & sane Mr. Thaw, 61, for $10,000 back fees. Said U. S. District Judge Alfred Conkling Coxe: "Doctor, you are in a tough spot. I would like to see you get your money. But the cause of action is plainly outlawed...