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...some of London's principal newspapers for their reporting of the incident in which figured an herbalist named George Andrew McMahon, his revolver and King Edward (TIME, July 27). The nature of this incident as ultimately aired in court was something upon which Fleet Street found it financially safer not to comment last week. Almost alone was the Chicago Tribune in sending its Correspondent David Darrah to report what the herbalist's lawyer Alfred Kerstein had to say as he moved to appeal the case to a higher British court this week...
...detonators and afternoon papers throughout the world shrieked such page-wide headlines as: COMMUNISTS BLOW UP ALCÁZAR! - NEARLY ALL DEFENDERS FEARED DEAD! An entire trainload of additional Red militia had arrived from Madrid to help the Toledo Militia swarm in over the ruins. To make the assault safer Red artillery poured a 15-minute barrage into the clouds of dust and smoke rising over the Alcázar. Then 1,500 militia led by four militia girls surged forward expecting merely to wade in White blood. As they neared Spain's West Point, suddenly and amazingly indomitable...
Questioned by newshawks in St. Paul, Minn., Nominee Knox had no comment on this challenge. But in New York Republican National Chairman John Hamilton stoutly backed up his No. 2 candidate's assertion, snapped: "They were safer in 1932 than they...
Paradoxically, the old Ridge Route, though more dangerous from a physical or engineering standpoint, has actually proven safer than the fine new road-all because of the excessive, often reckless, speed that is possible on the new route. REGINALD Moss Berkeley, Calif...
...years, 31 people have been killed on the Indianapolis track. This year the roadbed, rough as a country lane, was widened at the turns. The outside retaining wall, through which cars used to pitch, was reinforced. Drivers wondered whether this change, designed to make the race safer, might not, by "kissing" cars back into the path of the field, merely serve to make it more spectacular. Last week's race indicated that the track had actually been improved. Although the pace was 3 m.p.h. faster than last year's, there was only one serious accident. Wooden-legged...