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...Morgan stepped into No. 23 Wall Street, the building known on every bourse in the world as "The Corner," on Feb. 23-Driving in from his great Matinicock estate at Glen Cove, Long Island, he came into the bank as usual at about 10:30 a.m. That evening he was on a Florida special, southbound for a rest. Early on the morning of the 25th he suffered a slight heart attack, walked from the train to a cottage of the Gasparilla Inn at Bocagrande, a tiny hamlet on a Florida...
...torpedoes and down went two Jap merchantmen. Klakring let his crew take a look through the periscope at "this very pretty sight." When the other Jap ships, panic-stricken, turned and raced for the shore, Klakring surfaced and gave chase. He dogged one ship into a cove and plumped a torpedo into her middle. It was a lucky hit at long range. But, said Klakring, a soft-spoken Marylander, "If I had missed her I would have hit a large power plant on the water's edge, where there was a tremendous tank of illuminating gas. I didn...
Died. Floyd Leslie Carlisle, 61, U.S. utilitycoon, spokesman for the power industry; of an embolism; in Glen Cove, L.I. A longtime banker and newsprint magnate, he moved on to become head of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, biggest U.S. utility, and board chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. (which manufactures all the power produced on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls), world's largest private distributor of electric power...
Meanwhile, Muenter was on his way to Glen Cove, L.I. where Morgan lived. His plan was to hold Mrs. Morgan and her children captive till Morgan agreed to stop shipping munitions abroad. He forced his way in, but J.P. rushed at him, and Muenter shot him down. Servants subdued Muenter...
...Lucas he observed that the rocks were "ferocious with life....Perhaps the force of the great surf which beats on this shore has much to do with the tenacity of the animals here. It is noteworthy that the animals, rather than deserting such beaten shores for the safe cove and protected pools, simply increase their toughness and fight back at the sea with a kind of joyful survival. This ferocious survival quotient excites us and makes us feel good, and from the crawling, fighting, resisting qualities of the animals, it almost seems that they are excited...