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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Roswell Keyes Colcord, 100, oldest ex-Governor (Nevada, 1890-94) in the U. S.; in Carson City, Nev. Just before his 100th birthday he remarked: "I have never said or done anything worthy of boasting about." Of one thing he might have boasted about, his age, he said: "I have lived 20 years longer than any man should...
...handle the Germans to date. This story told of "mass executions of some of Germany's best pilots" following their refusal to fly for fear their planes had been sabotaged or because there were not enough Messerschmitts fighters to escort them on bombing missions. One mutiny was said to have occurred among three squadrons of Field Marshal Göring's pet "Swallows of Death" wing stationed at Magdeburg, who were ordered to intercept Britain's leaflet raiders. Another mutiny was located in the reconnaissance groups at Kaiserslautern, where seven squadrons balked. They, apparently, did not relish...
...greatest literary shortstop of his time"; of old age; in Chicago, Ill. Huge, gangling Opie Read wrote 55 books, edited the once famed humorous paper, The Arkansas Traveler. Like Oklahoma Wit Will Rogers, he belittled his own peculiarities by exaggerating those of others. Example: When a relative entered politics, said towering Opie Read: "He was so big that they didn't put him on a stump. They dug a hole for him to stand...
...Brighton, Pa., Health Officer Fred Myers, called by neighbors to investigate a house in which gas lights had shone night and day for two weeks, found a dead man sitting in a chair, an open book beside him. Said the man's widow: "I thought there was something wrong. He wouldn't talk...
...Hobo King Jeff Davis and his wife celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Reminisced King Jeff: "I was 16 and she was 15. . . . We wrote '18' on two slips of paper and put them in our shoes. Then when the marriage license clerk asked our age we truthfully said we were over...