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...first time I met him five years back, at a time when he was also fighting for his life. His surroundings were, however, vastly different. Heavy, highly polished furniture which looked both cosy and somewhat bourgeois had replaced the rough tables, chairs and field telephone which furnished his cave headquarters...
Died. Charles B. Moran, 70, longtime (1916-39) National League baseball umpire ("It ain't nothing until I call it"); of a heart ailment; in Horse Cave, Ky. A onetime big-league ballplayer (he pitched and caught for the Cardinals, 1903-08), colorful, rasp-voiced "Uncle Charley" spent his off-seasons coaching football (his Centre College, Ky. eleven beat Harvard's great 1921 grid team 6-0-), helped develop Centre's famed "Bo" McMillin...
Americans liked the kindly, unassuming intellectual who was Brazil's Emperor -and he liked them. He sampled Cincinnati's beer, explored Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, compared San Francisco's Golden Gate to Rio's mountain-girt Guanabara Bay. In Boston he had long talks with Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier; when he came back to the Philadelphia exposition, Alexander Graham Bell showed him his newly invented telephone. "My God," said Dom Pedro, "it talks...
...there are other types of underground Germans - the thousands of homeless . . . who live in herds in stifling air-raid bunkers. The fits to which these cave dwellers are frequently subject have been nicknamed Bunkerkoller (bunker frenzy)" [TIME, April...
...three hours before the shaft could be pumped dry. Whitey went back down. "He deserves a knighthood," said a worker, "but he doesn't even have a job." Others relieved him. The lateral tunnel began to cave in. The low talk of the workmen was carried over the loudspeaker. "It's caving to beat the band," said the voice below. Timbers went down for shoring. The men worked on, regardless of danger, or bone-deep fatigue. Little O. A. Kelly leaned back wearily when he was pulled to the surface, and swore: "I'm going in there...