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Meantime, fruitless air bombings continued. Rightist planes bombed Valencia, killed 125 people including Arnold Crone, captain of a British freighter loading oranges in the harbor. In retaliation, Leftist planes again bombed Salamanca, Valladolid, Talavera. To end this senseless waste of good munitions and useless murder of civilians the Leftist Government proposed a truce on the bombing of any objective not in the area of combat by planes of either side...
...doctors have replaced two of last year's staff. Dr. Neil L. Crone will take the place of Dr. John Cass at the Law School and Dr. Andrez W. Contratto is succeeding Dr. Earl Chapman...
...rich lady, babbling endlessly about her memories. She could never keep her story straight, sometimes asserting that she had been married to President Lincoln and General Grant, or that the King of Italy was her foster father, or that she owned the Republic of Guatemala. But the daft old crone was not to be pitied, for she had lived greatly once and her true story was almost as fabulous as her imaginings...
...readers a novel far off the subject of his previous books, suggesting that he has put aside the Irish revolution as material for his fiction, and concentrated on tragedies of peace more compatible with his peaceful style of writing. This time he tells the story of Corney Crone, born in Cork in 1873, the son of a narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather, an old Fenian who lived in a garret...
...history may be the squeaks of indignation that result whenever it does so. Last week in Nashville, Tenn., Miss Fannie Walton, great-grandniece of Rachel Jackson, and the Nashville Ladies Hermitage Association made strenuous protests because The Gorgeous Hussy showed Mrs. Jackson as a pipe-smoking crone. Said Miss Walton, "I think it's a sacrilege...