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...forces within the walls, all of whom fled by every available gate, some with and some without arms, and all without firing a shot. Those fifteen scouts, without a single man killed or wounded, remained in undisputed possession of Soochow for the next three hours, until other Japanese forces overtook them...
...editing of the Satevepost George Horace Lorimer was tired when he resigned Jan. 1. Said he quietly: "I should like to live a more leisurely life and put into effect some long deferred plans." Last week at his home in Philadelphia's suburban, wooded Wyncote, death overtook the 69-year-old editor in his quest for leisure. He had been ill with pneumonia a week...
...horsey mid-western finishing school (TIME, June 7). Seven years later Roy Davis' Republican friends made him U. S. Minister to Guatemala, an event he celebrated by adopting spats, cane and black-ribboned pince-nez. High point of Roy Davis' diplomatic career was the revolution that overtook him as U. S. Minister to Panama in 1931. Because no U. S. soldiers were called from the Canal Zone during the fracas, Minister Davis was hailed by Panamanians of every stripe, including even profane and eccentric Editor Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American. They named a lake in his honor...
...called to the throne, he was already acting ruler in his father's absence. The bad news came from Hamburg. There his tall father, Frederik VIII, had been out for an evening stroll alone. Queen Louise (a Swedish-Norwegian princess) was at home in Copenhagen. A heart attack overtook the old gentleman (he was 68). Passersby helped him to a hospital, none knowing who he was. For hours he lay on a public mortuary slab before identification was made...
...point he was spotted by another TWA pilot, Capt. A. M. Wilkins, flying in from the west at 700 ft. ready to land as soon as Bohnet was down. Wilkins saw the silvery monoplane about three miles ahead and 200 ft. lower in level flight. To his surprise he overtook it fast. When only a mile behind, Wilkins cut his speed in order not to pass Bohnet. Simultaneously he noticed that Bohnet was having trouble. Though the air was clear, with no turbulence whatever, the plane ahead was wallowing. A wing would go down five degrees, then wobble back...