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...week a group of men quietly laid hold of Mechanic Kassay. Among them he recognized his "friend"?revealed as an agent of the U. S. Department of Justice. Kassay was jailed, charged with criminal syndicalism, on the strength of the story of the Department of Justice agent as retold above. Kassay was said to have described himself as a Communist, a former captain in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He denied both of these allegations, denied the sabotage, spoke of a "frame...
...showing beginning at 5 o'clock, will be open to the general public as well. Professor Dana has had several interviews in Europe with Serge Eisenstein; director of this film, and has found Eisenstein's explanations of many of the unusual scenes so starting and interesting that he has retold them to his class...
...tomb a London surgeon took the dead Pharaoh's dried and leather heart. He dissected it and marveled. His amazement he told to Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association, who last week retold: The heart showed a fatty degeneration and a hardening, and it was, wonderfully, the heart of that very Pharaoh Menephthah of whom the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened. . . . (Exodus...
...amazing because it was so quick. Pedley was stretched flat before any of the spectators realized it. It was all the more remarkable because Doolittle was boxing out of his class in weight-a light heavyweight in the heavyweight group. The incident, which is local legend hereabouts, and much retold, was an early proof of the quick-thinking faculty Doolittle has so often exhibited in flying. A friend of mine who saw him "sail out" at Cleveland says that many a pilot near the hangars said "Even if he is a caterpillar, he's still the greatest...
...Chicago, was the hero of the story which he wrote himself. Many another U. S. newspaper retold the tale of woe (TIME, June 3). Convict Burns got much sympathy. Letters, telephone calls, personal visits to Illinois and Georgia authorities besought a pardon for much-pitied Convict Burns...