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...just as military aviation was being spotlighted by F. Trubee Davison. President Roosevelt abolished these young zealots' jobs as assistant secretaries for air in the two departments. Today a Navy airman is first of all a sailor, though the Army flyer still thinks of himself as a different breed from other soldiers. But naval aviators did not disguise their delight when word went round that "Reeves is coming in." If there is any petting done, the air force will get petted while Admiral Reeves is in command...
...Quest, stumbled at the start and threw his jockey; on a sloppy track, at Belmont Park. ¶ S. L. Froelich's Sealyham terrier Gunside Babs of Hollybourne: Best in Show against 2,827 entrants in the Morris and Essex Kennel Club's dog show, biggest outdoor all-breed event ever held in the U. S.; at Madison...
...forest ranger in the middle of the main street of Tonto Basin, Ariz, frantically flagged an approaching automobile. To its passengers he explained that his 15-year-old half-breed wife was in her 24th hour of labor. Out from the car climbed Arizona's Physician-Governor Benjamin B. Moeur, followed the ranger to his house. Few minutes later the Physician-Governor delivered the mother of a 7-lb. baby...
...circumstances of Albert's death were such as to breed ugly stories. Albert left his footman at 2 p. m. saying he would return in an hour. When he failed to return after several hours, the frightened footman did not think to step into a telephone booth at nearby Marche-les- Dames. Instead, with an impulse toward secrecy, he drove a long way to the chateau of Count Anton de Wiart, and from there telephoned the royal palace at Brussels. The two court officials who got the message drove out to Marche-les-Dames to search for the King...
...German Consul-General, cringing before the oppositions of a noisy Semitic minority, has chosen to ignore yesterday's escapade, and the N.S.L. publicity seeker is free again. He should have been shipped over to Germany, where they know how to handle his breed, and sterilized as an undesirable. Then, perhaps, there would be less Communist martyrs ready to follow his example. E. M. Miller...