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...Brenton Wellas Creelman...
...Memphis, Tenn. one night last month, Brenton Root, 32, contract investigator for a wholesale house, went to a hotel dance with some friends and his pretty wife, Daisy, 30. There the Roots, who had been living apart for six weeks, got into a quarrel because Mrs. Root resented her husband's attentions to a cigaret girl named Lucille Underwood. Daisy Root returned to her home, where she lived with her 4-year-old son. An hour later, pistol in hand, she entered Brenton Root's ome, awakened him, said, "Look at me, darling," shot him dead...
...most newspaper readers, it might have remained just one more killing in the city with one of the nation's highest homicide rates (TIME, May 28, 1934), but for the fact that Brenton Root was the son of a respected Episcopal clergyman-Rev. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Root, rector of St. Simon's Church in Chicago, onetime dean of the Cathedral in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Dr. Root calmly announced he forgave his daughter-in-law for killing his son. Last week he publicly interpolated his feelings in a sermon on forgiveness. While his wife was visiting Daughter...
...spectator's fleet in Newport Harbor made it, said a destroyer captain, "worse than Shanghai Basin." Surrounded by every conceivable kind of ocean-going craft was a quorum of all the big yachts in U. S. waters. They trailed out toward a buoy nine miles southeast of Brenton's Reef Lightship for the start of the race. Among a fleet of 500 or more, were half a dozen ocean liners, two cruisers H. M. S. Dragon and U. S. S. Minneapolis, 20 or more Coast Guard cutters and Navy destroyers. The Committee boat had already signalled the course...
...owned by a Boston syndicate and skippered by one-time Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, came out for the first time and lost to Vanitie while Rainbow was again beating Weetamoe. For the third race, there was a light breeze. Over 30 miles, windward and leeward from Brenton's Reef Lightship to a buoy off Block Island and back, Rainbow won for the third time in a row while Yankee, considered a slow boat in calm weather, surprised the committee by running away from Weetamoe...