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...sure first in the weight throw in the person of Frank Cahners and the shot put will be dominated by Johnny Dean and Red Healey as it was last year. A new development of the last few days has it that Michelet, the Dartmouth captain, has come down with pneumonia, in which case his second in the weight throw will go to Healey of the Crimson...
...confession unuttered. The other woman, a friend of both, relates the story in disguise to form the wife; then Loving discusses this point with his wife in relation to the two possible endings of the novel. Elsa sees through the fiction but cannot bring herself to forgiveness. She catches pneumonia and is on the verge of death. The husband is numbled fights his rational self to death and is converted beneath the crcifix. The wife lives...
...Pomp and Circumstance has the lusty. red-blooded quality which characterizes the best of Elgar's music. When he was recognized by the throne, Elgar started writing too much occasional music. He celebrated King George's coronation, his visit to India in 1912, his recovery from pneumonia in 1929. But having found an important native composer. England never stopped praising him, rated him a worthy successor of Beethoven and Brahms...
Died. William Travers Jerome, 74, New York County's famed Tammany-baiting district attorney (1901-09); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was elected district attorney on a fusion ticket, clung on for a second term despite a Tammany comeback in 1905. A consummate showman with an acid tongue, he made things hot not only for quaking city officials but for gamblers, juror-bribing lawyers, chiseling labor delegates, racketeers of any sort. He hated the name of "reformer," smoked incessantly, drank, played poker and shot craps with his cronies. He prosecuted Harry Kendall Thaw, kept him in asylums...
Seven times since pneumonia laid him low Melvin Traylor collapsed beyond all hope of recovery. Seven times since he took to his bed last month, the Chicago banker rallied to confound his doctors. One morning last week his heart stopped for two minutes. That evening he stirred from coma to whisper: "How tired I am!" At 11 o'clock the doctors called the family. After seven minutes the stout Traylor heart stopped beating for good...