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...fresh shudders went up the spine of Cleveland, Ohio last week. Negroes picking over a lakefront dump found the dissected body of a young white woman, wrapped in butcher's paper. From its condition it had apparently been kept on ice for some time before being buried on the dump. While police were examining this find, morbid onlookers discovered, 100 ft. away, parts of another, older cadaver, apparently a Negro's. Cleveland's police declared the crimes to be jobs No. 12 and No. 13 of "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (a title conferred by Cleveland...
...Sunday in August 1932, Lawyer Timothy D. Hurley was sunning himself in his swimsuit on a public beach on the Michigan lakefront in Evanston. Lawyer Lynn A. Williams, one of several property holders whose beach joined the public sands, was passing out little printed cards inviting people to move off the private onto the public part of the beach. He had just handed cards to two pretty young women when he noticed Lawyer Hurley. "I was shocked. I told him he couldn't lie there like that. But he kept lying with his head on the sand looking...
...General Italo Balbo's 24 seaplanes had been not Italian but Japanese; if they had flown not across the Atlantic but eastward across the Pacific; if they had landed for a -goodwill" visit not at Chicago's lakefront but in Seattle's Puget Sound - they would have received a punctiliously polite welcome. But the average U. S. citizen would have felt about the same as the average Frenchman felt last month when Balbo's armada came roaring across the Alps out of Italy to blacken the skies of France. Last week France's Air Ministry...
Oldsters who first beheld a Ferris wheel and an electric light bulb at Chicago's Fair of 1893 will appreciate the "Century of Progress" idea when they see the show's location. Within view of one of the country's tallest city skylines, on the lakefront from 12th to 39th Streets, the buildings surround a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight...
...three sons are married. He plays mediocre golf, desultory family bridge, would rather spend an evening reading history or talking international finance with Charles and Henry. He takes his Fair job seriously. Last winter he closed his old remodeled house on suburban Evanston's lakefront. moved into a town apartment to be nearer the Fair. That is why his Daughter Margaret was married in town instead of Evanston last month...