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...shot. He discussed it with his wife for three or four minutes, then started for Denhardt's car. Half way across his yard, he heard a second shot, much less loud than the first. Continuing, he found General Denhardt standing beside his car. The General asked for a flashlight, explaining that Mrs. Taylor had gone back up the road toward the filling station to look for a glove. As Farmer Baker was returning with a lantern, the messenger and a mechanic appeared with the battery. The four men walked up the road, found nothing, went back and installed...
...reward Mary Lewis received five full minutes of bravos, five huge baskets of roses and chrysanthemums, five close-up flashlight shots, all accepted breathlessly and with apparent surprise. Loudest applause, no matter what she sang, came from Mary Hague's own guests, among them Husband Hague, Jimmy Durante, George M. Cohan and James J. Walker who, when he was New York's mayor, married Mary Lewis to Basso Bohnen...
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine became bitter enemies. Admiral Richard E. Byrd knocked out Bert Acosta with a flashlight as their plane circled over France. Joseph Marie Lebrix "sickened of being a valet" to Dieudonne Coste. Alexander Magyar challenged George Endres to a duel. To this tradition which dictates that men who have flown the North Atlantic together shall not long be friends, Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill last week lived up with a bang...
Attempts to take pictures with flashlight bulbs were met with stern opposition from the proctors for fear that they would excite the crowd further...
...Ride of the Valkyries ended the program, brought the audience to its feet, too moved at first to cheer the conductor as he turned from the players, looking suddenly tired. In that tense moment a news cameraman popped up at the footlights, exploded a flashlight directly in the Maestro's face. Toscanini fled to the wings. Out leaped Bruno Zirato, the Philharmonic's assistant manager, to seize the photographer by the scruff, hustle him out to the lobby where detectives and doormen de prived him of his camera and the plate he had used...