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Sympathy of the assembled onlookers was entirely on the side of the conflagration. No effort was expended to extinguish the blaze until the engines arrived, and even then the fire was exhorted in its hopeless ten-minute battle against torrential streams pumped from the Charles...
...fair example of this Elizabethan lust for life that is satisfied by Boston's Home Picture Newspaper, the following headlines called from two pages may be cited: Madman Kidnaps Auto Driver. Vodka Homicide, Dies in Auto Blaze, Air Vet Held in Matricide, Dead Beside Prayers, Find Body of Girl Severed, Battle Today on Bertolini, and Hot Knife Halts Bleeding, while corporate liquidation is taken advantage of by the merry police, who drag the river bottom in "the hope of stirring up more of the body...
Like a fire-engine lolloping home from a blaze, the Landon campaign special last week retired in leisurely fashion from New England whither it had gone for the Maine election (TIME, Sept. 21). First, motoring to Nashua, N. H. to board his train, Alf Landon stopped at the roadside to buy a 25? basket of apples, saying tactfully, "I have heard so much about your New England apples." Ignorantly he picked a basket of handsome Gravensteins thereby causing natives, who think their Mclntoshes tastier, to raise their eyebrows...
...Reds began with a frantic will, for meanwhile a White army under Generalissimo Francisco Franco had at last decisively taken Talavera de la Reina (see p. 19) and, advancing five miles per day, was within 25 miles of the Alcázar when torches were applied and gasoline blazed high. Cheering wildly a Red column swept up the rocky base of the fortress-only to be driven back by sickening gasoline fumes while the blaze soon guttered out on the rocks. To save his Red face after this fiasco, General José Asensio of the Red militia started talking about...
...Minister Alfred Duff Cooper, who was aboard the chartered royal yacht Nahlin, kept vainly radioing ashore that the King was traveling incognito as the Duke of Lancaster. Nevertheless, the next Balkan fortress passed would blaze away a 21-gun royal salute. The Duke of Lancaster delighted during the week to slip off the Nahlin with Mrs. Simpson, she in the stern and he at the oars of a skiff...