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Today ruddy-faced, blue-eyed Joseph Ridder, 60, runs the family's Ridder Publications, Inc. from a paneled office in the old World building, on Manhattan's Park Row. Victor, his invalid twin, divides his time between Duluth and New York. Bernard, a retired poet, runs the St. Paul papers, and eight Ridder sons, back from the war, are spotted at strategic points of the empire...
...geographical limitation factor became clearly invalid. But the Commission's recommendation that Jewish immigration be resumed and unhampered Jewish land purchases be permitted ran into a solid wall of Arab resistance. The Arabs insisted that the Jews would soon outnumber them, control the land, and then be in a position to claim all of Palestine as their own. They backed up their argument with threats, and the British, perhaps overestimating Arab capacity to cause trouble, backed down, stating that the additional British troops necessary to carry out large scale immigration made the plan unworkable from an Empire viewpoint...
Died. Anthony Lombardi Jr., 14, semi-invalid juvenile delinquent, whose flogging at the Colorado Industrial School for Boys aroused Coloradoans to demand statewide reform of prison practice and discipline (TIME, Sept. 30); of rheumatic heart disease; in Denver. Cried Mrs. Angeline Lombardi: "They killed...
...weight, full grown, was 96 lbs. A confirmed invalid, he suffered from coughs, sweats, neuralgia, nausea, diarrhea. He dosed himself with quinine, nitric acid, extract of liverwort. He walked about with a cane, muffled himself in scarves and flannels, later (after an iron gate fell on him) rode in a wheelchair. He never married. Until he died at 71, he had a gnome-like, boyish face-beardless, wrinkled, blotched...
...comes by this small-townish, unstarlike domesticity without trying too hard. As a child she was badly injured by a falling tree branch, remained an invalid for about a year. She had to wear a corrective brace, was forced to become more or less stay-at-home and introspective. But at 14 she was well and worldly-wise enough to apply for a job in the chorus of the Broadway musical Sing Out the News, and pretty enough to get it. Singing and dancing for a couple of months, she returned to high school to graduate with high marks, went...