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...automobile and went for a swim. Freda did not return home. Edwards told police a half-dozen stories of accidental death and incriminating circumstances. The last version, which he gave firmly from the witness stand last week, was that Freda had slipped while stepping from the dock into a rowboat, had cracked her head on the boat. Fearing she was dead, he hit her with his blackjack, he said, because "it occurred to me that if there were only some mark on Freda's body it would look like an accident and leave...
...newshawks cooking breakfast in his Greenwich Village apartment. Said he: "I got about $250 for that picture. . . . These admirals and secretaries probably never were sailors themselves. . . . What do they think sailors do on shore leave? They go to Riverside Drive. The ones who are out for innocent pleasure go rowboat riding in Central Park. ... A sailor's life is not a glamorous...
...class which raced against the closest U. S. equivalent -Gold Cup craft, with superchargers. A minute before the third and last heat of the 12-litre race, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy, Count Rossi de Montelera. heading for the starting line in his red Barracuda, smashed into a little rowboat which he had failed to notice in his path. In the rowboat were the Marquis de la Gandara and his mechanic. They were fished out safe and sound but officials refused to give the Count time to patch the hole in the Barracuda's bow. It made small difference...
...Said Brennan: 'Sam took his sweetheart out in a rowboat and they quarreled, and Sam threw her overboard, and every time she came up he hit her on the head with an oar. Wasn't it awful...
Benito Mussolini provided the bacon. Until the middle of last week Chancellor Dollfuss would let out no specific word of what occurred last fortnight when II Duce, in a dripping bathing suit, sat in a rowboat with him beyond the beach at Riccione (TIME, Aug. 28). He would only smile rosily at Hearst Correspondent Karl von Wiegand...