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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seventh casualties of the football season took place in hospitals. Leo Goodreau, 19, died of a broken neck in Philadelphia, calling the signals for the play in which he had been hurt. In Washington, Pa., William Charles Young had his back broken in a scratch game. In Orange, N. J., another casualty occurred. A man in a cinema theatre, watching a picture of Bruce Caldwell playing football, stood up, cheered, and dropped dead of heart failure...
Three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 17), Jews celebrated Yom Kippur, their Day of Atonement. On the eve of Yom Kippur, in Massena. N. Y., Barbara Griffith, 4, disappeared. Her parents asked policemen to find her. At about this time, someone remembered the legend of the sacrifice. A State police trooper named H. M. McCann summoned Rabbi Berel Brennglass to headquarters where, in accordance with an arrangement previously made with Mayor W. Gilbert Hawes, he questioned the rabbi as follows...
...highest for all time, surpassing even the figure for June 6. Apparently undisturbed, the stock-market went about its business, saw a seat sold for a record $425,000, dickered for the adjoining 20-story Postal Telegraph building as an annex, appointed Mrs. Catherine M. Healy of Montclair, N. J., as its first woman purchasing agent...
...AMERICA (1928-29)? A. N. Marquis...
...Manhattan, police, alert with horror, last week patroled ferry, tube and tunnel terminals to prevent one John Desnatos sneaking into the city. A leper with a rash across his forehead, he had escaped from the isolation hospital at Belleville, N...