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...around the house, found Ward's ax, ran on smashing flower pots, window panes, returned to the door and began chopping at it. Ward telephoned the Peekskill police who told him his house was out of their district, called the Cortlandt police who told him to try the state troopers at Hawthorne, 15 miles away, called the state troopers who sent a trooper. Ward got out his shotgun, loaded it, returned to the window. The naked man was still chopping at the door. Ward fired once over his head, the second time into the madman's body...
...novel was to have been laid. A master of indirection, he begins unobtrusively with an account of contemporary Don Fernando, fat, dirty tavern keeper who forced on him a biography of Saint Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius, who disappointed a noble family, sacrificed his influence with the great, and in the flower of his youth went to live among the poor, captured Author Maugham's imagination. He visited the town where Loyola had suffered, even attempted some of Loyola's milder exercises for mortifying the flesh, but only made himself ill without ecstasy. Bringing his imagination more sharply into focus...
...Irwin, who is now a director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, decided that such talents should be given an opportunity to flower. Chauffeur Cummins, mechanically inclined since childhood, had built an automobile at the age of 15. Mr. Irwin set him up in business with $10,000, eventually backed him with half a million. By 1930 Chauffeur Cummins was one of the leading manufacturers of Diesel engines...
...retirement plan, effective July 1. Next Jan. 29, for the first time in a quarter of a century, George Bruce Cortelyou will not be on hand at his office to celebrate the anniversary of William McKinley's birth by sending each department head a red carnation, favorite flower of his old employer...
...Lilian Harvey, is one of those cinemas which strive to be charming. Diffused lighting, yachts, Monte Carlo, the Riviera in the moonlight, and a champagne supper for two--all these ingredients achieve a sort of Midsummer Nights Dream atmosphere. Carminati, rich and cynical, complains that love is an ephemeral flower, but that, of course, is before he meets Miss Harvey. Also on the program is a very interesting installment of the "March of Time," including a Russian chapter of unusual brilliance...