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...years Italian police sought to discover who had sent Gualtierotti a pair of boots with nitroglycerin concealed in the hollowed-out heels. Last week police had their murderer-Gualtierotti's cousin Pier Luigi Tamburlani. Tamburlani confessed after a Rome bootmaker, interviewed by police about another case, recalled making a pair of hollow-heeled boots for Tamburlani in late 1936. Tamburlani told the bootmaker that the heels had to be hollow because the boots were intended for an official who needed a hiding place for secret documents...
Fire licked down a wooden pier and set ablaze the old decommissioned transport tied in Baltimore harbor. Confiscated from Germany, a troop transport in two wars, a passenger liner in the '20s with a record of three groundings, three collisions, two murders, Prohibition raids and countless small fires, the George Washington, which carried Woodrow Wilson and a cargo of great hopes to the Versailles Peace Conference, was gutted beyond repair...
Docking in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Windsor found the Duchess, who had arrived last month, waiting for him at the pier. He gave her one royal buss, and then half a dozen more for the benefit of photographers. As for all those rumors of a rift, he explained that he had stayed behind in France merely to finish some proofreading on his memoirs...
Down to see the contingent's main body off at Hong Kong's pier was Malcolm MacDonald, British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, who sometimes wears the kilt himself. Said MacDonald to the departing soldiers: "Remember that when you are fighting North Koreans you are really fighting Russian Communism . . . Every time you hit the North Koreans you will be striking a blow, for freedom. In Korea you will be fighting just as if you were defending your beloved homeland and its people." Early this week, the British battalions landed in Kore...
...Papuan Aviation Battalion," who were paid in tobacco and trinkets. After rising to brigadier, then major general, Sverdrup came back to Missouri to work harder than ever in peacetime. His firm designed a $30 million hydroelectric plant in Missouri, and helped build the world's largest oil-loading pier, in Kuwait...