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...selling short Fox Film led to an investigation by the Stock Exchange (TIME, Dec. 22). Although he was exonerated of violating the rules or ethics of the Exchange, the long trial was a severe strain from which he was slow in recovering. Weakened by an attack of whooping cough, he died last week from a lung infection. Although he was mentioned as one of the leading bears, John Pope frowned on raiding, pools, manipulative tactics in general...
...staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower until mild panic occurred in the streets. A man riding atop a Fifth Avenue bus began to gasp and cough. He shouted "Sulphur!" and led a stampede of passengers down the stairs. Motorists complained to police that particles of the smoke had burned tiny holes in the tops of their automobiles. Scared pedestrians felt stinging sensations in their faces & hands, found their clothing dotted with acid burns...
...Manhattan Dr. Edward L. Mann appealed for a health education campaign among the foreign-born, cited his own knowledge of a case in which a mother attempted to cure her infant daughter of whooping cough by feeding her a live goldfish...
...vitality of photograph it easily equaled Town & Country. Text and drawing exhibited well the New Yorker technique but missed the master's polished cough and sigh. Only false note was a great photograph of, and leading article by, Randolph Churchill, jejune son of Winston, whose relation to Cleveland, if any, was nowhere explained. After that each page went well until the last which consisted of leering, Winchellesque questions without printed answers, e. g.: "Who is the minister who has the most complete collection of pornography in the city?" "Who is the financial power whose wife remarked when a maid...
General Foch in his memoirs describes the retreat of the 5th Army under General Gough as follows: "On the north the British Army maintained in general its positions, but it was quite otherwise with General Cough's Fifth Army. Along almost the whole of its front, it was swept away, its right in particular being thrown back west of Saint-Quentin up to the edge of the Crozat Canal. On . . . the 22nd, this army, badly shaken, retreated toward the Somme. An extraordinary incident here took place -one only to be explained by the contagion which spread from the confused...