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...ambulance and lifted out not 94-year-old John Davison Rockefeller St., as bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs and accompanied by his son John Jr., was driven up in a big, black sedan. Delayed at Pocantico Hills some three months by an attack of influenza, he was at last ready for his annual trip to his winter home at Ormond Beach, Fla. The announcement day before his departure that he had given up the trip was unexplained. Before his wheel-chair was hoisted...
When her limousine broke down on the road from Sandringham House to Cambridge, England's Queen Mary was given a lift in a wheezy little 10 h. p. sedan driven by a brewery's traveling salesman named Percy Titmous...
...eyeful when the ambiguous Denyse Zinh swims into view. Before he knows it, they are bedfellows. But when he walks in unexpectedly one night he finds he is not the only one. Taking it like a man, he goes off to watch the French army get its knockout at Sedan. He arrives the night before the battle, just as the German lines are closing in, is summoned by the Emperor and given an important missive to the Empress in Paris. After the battle he gets through the German lines, helps rescue the Empress from a mob at the Tuileries...
...Nice & Lovely" Next day the Senators let Mr. Fitzpatrick tell his own story. As a small-town Kansas lawyer he became general counsel for Prairie in 1908, rose to president by 1928. Like Harry Sinclair in Independence, Sam Fitzpatrick played in the brass band in Sedan, Kans. In later years in Independence he lived near Harry Sinclair, always rated a standing salute when he spoke in public. But last week Independence citizens, shocked by the $300.000 gift, talked about how Sam Fitzpatrick had sold out their home-town company...
...expected Benny to be happy, but he wasn't. "While Franklin, by his precept, urged him to become a craftsman, he obliged him, by his glory, to act the lordling. While he preached simplicity, industry, frugality and love of the people to him, his three houses, his sedan chair, his titles and his fame gave him the rank of a nobleman. When he thought about this, Benny felt wretched and ashamed. But what could he do about...