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Seven died at Leander, 25 miles southwest of Alexandria. Two were killed when the tornado ripped through Tullos, 40 miles northeast of Alexandria...
Demolished and damaged homes and barns marked the northeasterly are of the storm. Beginning in the Leander area, it brushed the outskirts of Alexandria, hit Paradise, Dry Prong and Tulles...
Slight of Hand. In Buffalo, up for sentencing after pleading guilty, Forger Leander Jones confided to the judge that he could neither read nor write...
...Romantic movement. "This morning," he exulted, "I swam from Sestos to Abydos." And then, being Byron, he saw the funny side of it: "The immediate distance [across the Hellespont] is not above a mile, but the current renders it hazardous, so much so that I doubt whether Leander's conjugal affection must not have been a little chilled in his passage...
Home Life. James Grover Thurber was born in Columbus in 1894, second of the three children of Charles Leander and Mary Agnes Fisher Thurber. (Mrs. Thurber didn't like the "Leander," so her husband, a loyal Republican, changed it to "Lincoln.") Their other sons were William, a year older than Jim, and Robert, two years younger...