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Over a mile away other bombs whistled down on the corner of the Avenue Edward VII and Thibet Road in the French Concession where stands an amusement park, the "Great World." This, last week, was jampacked with Chinese refugees. A bomb landed smack in the middle of them, killed 450, wounded 800. Passing in the street were Dr. Frank J. Rawlinson, veteran U. S. Missionary, and Motorcar Salesman H. S. Honigsberg and his Russian wife. All three were killed. Dr. Robert Karl Reischauer, Princeton University lecturer, acting as a tourist guide for the summer, had his leg torn...
Last week, on the anniversary of the accident, tiny Chatsworth (pop. 1,100) held a memorial service in the Village Park. Seventy-nve-year-old Louis Joseph Haberkorn, one of the first to reach the scene, presided, introduced nine survivors. Service ended with singing of the ballad The Bridge Was Burned at Chatsworth, written shortly after the wreck by one T. P. Westendorf, whose initials are the same as the unlucky railroad's. Excerpt...
...cousin of indoor bowling, lawn bowling, recently revived, is nowadays a decorous game which appeals chiefly to oldsters, who find its 3½ lb. bowl (ball) easier to handle than the 16-lb. indoor ball. Last week 160 of its foremost enthusiasts assembled in Chicago's Jackson Park ior the high point of the U. S. season, the annual championship meet of the 22-year-old American Lawn Bowling Association...
...Iturbi had one tantrum in Cleveland because his audiences munched hot dogs, another in Philadelphia because photographers' flashbulbs annoyed him (TIME, Sept. 7). In Philadelphia again this summer as leader of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Iturbi waited until last week, an exceptionally hot one in the breezeless park, to go into his annual...
...painters with grim sociological messages did not stand off in a corner and poke fun at the "Sanity in Art" school, which was in evidence with scads of wholesome snowscapes, landscapes, seascapes. Of abstract paintings there were only two. Geographical range was all the way from The Ninth Hole, Park Ridge Golf Club to Royal Castle, Sweden, Early Morning. Most puzzling title would have been S. Stake's Chrycenthemen if his canvas had not depicted a recognizable flower...