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...Sergeant Jacob D. Deshazer's Hornet-based B-25 bombed Nagoya in 1942 and then got lost in the mists of the China coast. Deshazer chuted down and was taken prisoner by the Japs. As he lay hungry, in solitary confinement, Sergeant Deshazer had a vision. A forgiving God spoke to him in the words of the Sermon on the Mount: Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good unto them that hate you, and pray for them which do spitefully use you, and persecute...
...Times in Lancashire. When he tried Fleet Street, he couldn't get a job. So he bought a horse and greengrocer's cart, started to tour England, writing free-lance stories. These led eventually to a job on the Sunday Express. A piece he wrote about Sculptor Jacob Epstein caught Beaverbrook's eye. With typical Beaver whimsey, the boss made Williams a financial writer...
Rhinoplasty is the flossy name that surgeons give to fixing up noses. Manhattan Plastic Surgeon 'Jacob Daley thinks many rhinoplasties are mistakes because surgeon and patient forget about art. "Art takes the high road and seeks to create the unusual," Dr. Daley explains, "rhinoplasty takes the low road and seeks to remove all traces...
Died. Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, 85, Kansas City dowager who set out when she was past 60 to shower Washington society with champagne and Sunshine biscuits, eventually decided she had "gone pretty far for a baker's widow" [Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.]; after long illness; in Kansas City...
...Jacob S. Coxey, "General" of the famed tatterdemalion army of unemployed that marched from Ohio on Washington in 1894, still full of fight at 91, gave a Chicago isolationist gathering something to wrestle with: "The Government takes 20% out of your salary to pay you in terest on the 10% you have deducted from your salary to buy bonds. . . . Then they have to tax the people so the Government can pay interest to the banks, so the banks will support Government bonds upon which money is issued...