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...blow of 1920. All over the Northwest trees and power lines crashed to earth: 20 towns were without electricity until next forenoon; two brothers were electrocuted when a wire fell on to their automobile. On one 100-mile stretch of Oregon highway, 30 big trees dropped across the pavement, stopped traffic dead. A Washington State patrolman used his brakes in a hurry when a trunk fell right in front of him. When he got out to look, another landed right behind, trapped him for fair. At the Kelso (Wash.) municipal airport, the gale lifted a temporary frame hangar...
Because blonde Gerta Rozan's first good film part was eliminated in the cutting room, Austrian Actress Rozan confused Universal City traffic by patrolling the studio pavement in a strip-picket protest. By the third day, when she had got down to black satin brassière and panties, the producers summoned Miss Rozan to inform her that if she would cease they would try to fit her face back in the film. Hollywood verdict: best all-round publicity stunt of the season...
...college started out with quarters in ordinary houses, as explained by the tablets on the 1859 Gate and just inside the Porcellian Gate, and indicated by brick gammidae in the pavement south of Wadsworth House. Wadsworth House was built in the eighteenth century, but the presence of that old house is a reminiscence of the character of this part of Cambridge in its earliest days. The town stretched casually down the pleasant southerly slope toward the river, being divided into many individual plots. The primitive buildings have vanished, but the subdivision into numerous small plots, and the casual arrangement, still...
...ears, he entered his automobile, began a triumphal journey to the Chancellery as crowds cheered and wept themselves into hysteria. On either side swastika banners covered the building fronts, garlands of flowers hung across the street on golden cords, bands thundered out continuously his favorite Badenweiler March. The pavement beneath was a multicolored blanket of flowers strewn by white-bloused Hitler Maidens. Overhead the sun shone bright. It was a happy...
Doctor Suominen once ran 100 miles from Chicago to Milwaukee (stopping only for orange juice), once ran 1,000 miles in one of C. C. Pyle's famed "bunion Derbies." But last week, after six hours, the hot pavement had so blistered his feet that he had to quit with only six more miles to go. Duke, still going strong, won by default...