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...Love Rankin, a U. S. woman doctor attached to the Chinese Red Cross, one day last week tried to visit her husband who teaches school in a Shanghai suburb. Japanese bombers roared overhead. Frightened, she ran, thought of hiding behind an automobile, changed her mind, jumped behind a tree. The automobile was blown to bits. Bombs burst all around her, buried her in debris. Two coats and a sweater protected her from serious injury...
Maurice Ropaport, a Russian, was inspecting the rifle of a friend in the Shanghai Volunteers inside the Municipal Government Building. It went off. Maurice Ropaport died. Dr. Rankin and Maurice Ropaport were the first two foreigners hurt by gunfire in a fortnight's fighting of the Battle of Shanghai...
While Tex Rankin was making a new record of 131 consecutive outside loops high above him, Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams went through his upside-down falling-leaf stunt one day last week at the Southern Air Pageant at Charlotte, N. C. Suddenly Lieut. Williams' motor quit. Unable to reach the runway without endangering the crowd, he crashed his plane into an embankment, was not badly hurt. Lieut. Williams' reason for the accident: water in the gasoline...
...North Carolina power sites; President William N. Reynolds of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), who was lately elected to succeed Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (resigned last year); President Bennette Eugene Geer of Southern Worsted Corp.; Dr. Robert Lee Flowers, secretary-treasurer of the University, and Dr. Watson Smith Rankin, onetime dean of Wake Forest College (N. C.) School of Medicine, director of the hospital and orphanage program. Alternating between Manhattan and North Carolina, the Board meets every month. Last month it handed out $886,000 to the institutions on its list...
...Were there a war last week, propaganda would immediately have started flowing from the office of Lieut.-Colonel William Hector Rankin, U. S. reserve corps, lately commissioned for that very purpose (TIME, April...