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Unheralded, unawaited, after a secret start from Berlin, the Bremen dropped from the sky above Dublin on March 26. Three head-erect Germans stepped from her cabin: Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian nobleman, owner of the plane; Capt. Hermann Koehl, stolid flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...
...long held European literature entranced, would still be invaluable. As so often happens, the Naturalistic movement introduced by this glant degenerated to vulgarity, but not before Hauptmann, Shaw, and Strindberg, following Ibsen, had established its importance in literature. Not often does true genius receive its due while its possessor lives; Ibsen, however, was fortunate enough to be hailed as great during his lifetime, and posterity has continued the applause of his generation...
...resignation of Myron K. Blackmer as Vice President of the Midwest Refining Co. Henry H. Blackmer, his father and Midwest's onetime Board chairman, is a fugitive from justice and the possessor of $763,000 profits of the Continental Trading Co.-money which apparently belongs to the Midwest...
Averages are usually uninteresting and impersonal, and of late they have been losing popularity and influence. The "average man" has found himself the fortunate possessor of inhibitions and high-blood pressure. The "man in the street" has become a Ford owner. The "dangerous criminal" has become a Chicagoan or a victim of temporary insanity. In every class the generality has given way to the particular in point of interest except in the case of the "college student...
Died. Father Jean Gerault de la Corgnals, affectionately known as the "priest of the Bayous," rector of St. Thomas's Catholic Church at Pointe a la Hache, La., possessor of the palm of the French Academy; in New Orleans, of pneumonia. When his parishioners refused to abandon their homes after the dynamiting of the Caernarvon levee to save New Orleans in the Mississippi flood, Father Girault stayed with them; became the only judge, jury, priest and doctor for the flooded parish of Plaquemines...