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Those near him declared that the expression of the Duce's face did not change. He sat quite still while the mob closed in upon his would-be assassin. Strong hands strangled the youth. Fourteen knives plunged into his flesh. Stripped, beaten to a pulp, dead, his body, unrecognizable, was eventually recovered by the police...
Facing the hardest schedule any Harvard basketball team ever was called upon to meet, the 1926 quintet will open its season on December 17, playing the strong Boston University team. Fourteen games in all complete the list. Yale, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton are the high spots on the schedule...
...purchasers' bids on the two airmail routes which remain under Federal ownership-the 2,665-mile stretch from New York to San Francisco, the 796-mile overnight route between Chicago and New York. It had never been the Government's intention to conduct these services permanently. Fourteen other routes, totaling 5,553 miles one way, had been opened by the Government and all turned over to private contractors. Now Mr. New judged commercial aviation to be strong enough, and the feasibility, the practicability of airmail carrying to be "adequately demonstrated," for private contractors to relieve the Post Office...
...last two-week stand at the Century Theatre. Somerset Maugham's story, made into one of the most successful plays in recent years, tells of a jaywalking girl from Honolulu and a fanatical, suppressed missionary who meet on a South Sea island. Miss Eagels, after some fourteen hundred performances has, to all intents and purposes, become Sadie Thompson. Actors, producers, public thundered her a tremendous ovation...
...Fourteen hundred firms, including those selling accessories, were represented, nearly four hundred more than were displayed at the record salon of 1924.* Twenty U. S. firms had exhibits. In the crowded auditorium were famed Presidents Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, H. H. Bassett of Buick, Lawrence C. Fisher of Cadillac, Myron E. Forbes of Pierce-Arrow, moving warily through the throngs, surveying their displays with a just pride...