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...days their bodies lay unclaimed in the City Morgue before a detective thought to trace the black lace evening gown which he found in the crone's drawer. Then Broadway knew that "Apple Annie" was dead. Her real name was Helen McCarthy. But for five years, known only as Apple Annie, she stood in a little alley off Times Square, hawked apples & oranges & gum. There Sportswriter Damon Runyon passed her many a day and on one of them he had an idea. The idea became a story, Apple Annie. The story became a moving picture, Lady...
...Captain Warms told Assistant Director Dickerson N. Hoover that the Morro Castle's automatic fire alarm system had failed to work. " This statement was not made. During the testimony of Captain Warms on Monday, Sept 10, Mr. Crone asked Captain Warms if the automatic alarm registered. Captain Warms answered that it registered when flames existed on A deck. Mr. Crone asked whether fire was in the staterooms at that time and Captain Warms replied: "Yes, in staterooms on A deck, port side...
...second rank and produced his only son, a feat in itself. A slim little woman with lively black eyes, an implacable fury when crossed, otherwise fond of argument, company and flowers, she effectively ruled China from 1861 when she was 27 until her death in 1908. a chagrined old crone of 74. She engineered three coups d'etat to do it. She put one nephew, aged five, on the throne and later took him off when, grown up and turned reformer, he bought a Bible and a globe. Another nephew she married to the daughter of her girlhood love...
...stooped and toothless crone of 71 shuffled along a country road near Kingston, Md. one morning last week. Mrs. Mary Denston was on her way to see her daughter. Suddenly, from behind, black hands were laid upon her. Cackling and kicking feebly she was dragged by a young Negro buck to a clump of bushes. There, amid a flurry of leaves dancing rustily in the autumn sunshine, she was raped...
...enable them to continue the study of medicine in Europe. The three holders this year are Dr. S. J. G. Nowak, of Boston, instructor in surgery at the Harvard Medical School; Dr. C. V. Seastone, Jr., of Madison, Wisconsin, research fellow in bacteriology and immunology; and Dr. N. L. Crone, of Boston, interne at the Massachusetts General Hospital...