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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shooting the Emperor of China's cousin is not the dangerous feat that once it was. For one thing the "rightful" Boy Emperor, P'u-yi (alias Henry), is a deposed nobody who dwells under Japanese protection, has deplorably weak eyes, and looks for guidance to his fatherly British friend and former tutor. Dr. Reginald Fleming (TIME...
...Story. Wolf Brassen said farewell to the paradise of childhood at 14, in 1909, in the southeastern edge of the Harz. Summering there, his father, his friend, his sweetheart, his would-be rival, all unconsciously matured the high-school student. Wolf's father, however, wished to keep him a child, continually worried about Wolf's getting wet feet. The boy felt he would like a country of real dangers, of snakes and apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here...
Died. Ambrose Monell, 23, of Manhattan, son and heir of the late nickel tycoon (founder and longtime head of the National Nickel Co.) ; near Armonk, N. Y. when an airplane which he and a friend had chartered for a week-end trip crashed, killing both passengers and the pilot...
Harry Manning, first officer of the S.S. America, hero of the rescue of the crew of the S.S. Florida last winter, appeared in a New York City court to testify that a friend arrested for speeding had been hurrying him to the hospital. When the friend was fined Hero Manning remarked: "Five months ago Mayor Walker gave me the keys to the City of New York. But I guess they are no good here...
...Miss Cross steadied, won the next sets 6-4, 6-2. But Miss Mary Greef will not again go unseeded at Essex. She lives in Kansas City. She is 19, a supple, medium-size blonde. She puts more body into her shots than most girls. Her friend Carl Meyer taught her how to play, the man who taught Wilbur F. ("Junior") Coen Jr. (later Tildenized...