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After a month of hide-&-seek, Mrs. Durant was traced to the home of her sister in Hudson, Wis. MPs surrounded the house but Mrs. Durant slipped out the back door, fled by taxi and train to Chicago. She met her husband, and at 5 p.m. on June 2 both registered at the La Salle Hotel. At 2 a.m., just 46 hours before fire crisped their third-floor room (see Disaster), MPs awakened them. Hours later they confessed...
Twelve minutes after their arrival, the raiders fled. Police cars sent out to pursue them made a wrong turning, pulled up at an insane asylum...
Only Jehovah knew last week how many Jews were moving out of their modern bondage toward the ancient promised Land. By thousands they fled from eastern Europe, where three-fourths of the Continent's 1,300,000 surviving Jews (not including those of Russia) have found no victory in Hitler's defeat.* Their exodus was illegal, clandestine, and humanitarian. A Polish Jewess explained why: "You know what Europe is to me? It's a cemetery. When I walk into a store and see soap on sale, I remember that this may be the body of my sister...
...first time was during the Russian Revolution. The son of a St. Petersburg banker and financial adviser to Rasputin, Serge fled to Sweden with his family when the Bolsheviks came to power. Eventually he made his way to England, studied economics at Cambridge University, quit to apply what he had learned. In his first deal, he made $17,000. At 24 he was running Paris' Banque Franco Asiatique, dabbling in French politics, performing feats of financial legerdemain for all comers-at a fee. He was also playing the French money market. Result: in 1935 the French Government...
...second year of the American Civil War, Christopher Kuester and his family fled to the U.S. from the hardship and ever-menacing hunger of peasant life in Germany. The year the Franco-Prussian War broke out (1870), they reached Cass County, where a heavily, German population had begun to put down American roots...