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...eleven rooms brilliant under crystal chandeliers, the hundreds of Berlin's international set were being greeted by a short, thin man in uniform. His perfectly bald head with a wiggly scar on one side distracted their gaze from his soft brown eyes. He was Major General Jacob Prawin, chief of the Polish military mission. The occasion for celebration in this very unfestive city was Poland's Liberation Day, a new national holiday...
...John Jacob Astor III, globular 35-year-old great-great-grandson of the original, was recuperating on his New Jersey estate from a case of measles...
...After Jacob, grandson of Abraham, had wrestled all night with the angel at the brook Jabbok, the angel dubbed him Israel ("Prince of God"), "for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." * Defenders forced down one plane the first day, a British-made Spitfire. Its youthful Egyptian pilot was overjoyed to find that he was not to be subjected to torture, which he had been told to expect...
...Jacob Sechler Coxey, who 54 years ago led "Coxey's Army" of unemployed to Washington (and got arrested for failing to keep off the grass), reached 94 in Massillon, Ohio, announced: "I'm going to live to be a hundred...
...Printing House Square. When Barrington-Ward died in Tanganyika, nobody expected Casey to succeed him. Fleet Street rumors pointed to the Economist's brilliant Editor Geoffrey Crowther or the Times's Senior Assistant Editor Donald Tyerman (whom Tories consider too far left); Colonel the Hon. John Jacob Astor, who owns a controlling interest in the Times, couldn't get Crowther so didn't try, and needed Tyerman where he was. He decided to leave Casey...