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From the Spanish war came rumors of a new air bomb expressly designed not for demolition but to kill personnel. These German-made bombs were said to be light (6 to 60 Ib.) and relatively cheap; even a small bomber could carry and release a great many. The casing was criss-crossed with grooves like a bar of chocolate so that a 10-pound bomb would fly into 800 small, jagged fragments of uniform shape. Many of the fragments fly out horizontally, giving the burst an effect like the circular sweep of a machine...
...Mussolini, less than any other major head-of-State in Europe, could not afford big war right now. Italy is poor. Gasoline went to 95? per gallon last week. Coffee above $1 per Ib. - i. e., did not exist. Italy is peace-willing (General Italo Balbo spoke for other Army men when he urged that Il Duce try to carry out President Roosevelt's peace suggestion). And Italy was scared...
Born. To John Coolidge, 33, traveling passenger agent for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, only living son of the late Calvin Coolidge and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 34, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull: a daughter; in New Haven. Name: Lydia. Weight: 8 Ib. 6 oz. Their other child, Cynthia...
Last week husky, 45-year-old Michael Lerner (Lerner Shops), who hunts and fishes round-the-globe, round-the-calendar, accomplished an unprecedented swordfishing feat. Off Nova Scotia's picturesque Louisburg, Angler Lerner boated two broadbill (275 Ib. and 367 Ib...
Born. To Thomas Hitchcock Jr., 39, world's No. 1 polo player; and Margaret Mellon Laughlin Hitchcock, 38, grandniece of the late Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon; twin sons, their third and fourth children. Weights: 7 Ib. 8 oz. and 7 Ib. 10 oz. Names: Thomas and William...