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Died, Margaret Tobin Brown ("Unsinkable Mrs. Brown"), 65, relict of Denver's famed Miner James Brown, heroine of the S. S. Titanic disaster; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. After meeting "Leadville John" Brown at the bottom of a mine shaft, marrying him in three weeks, she tried to spend his $10,000,000 fortune in philanthropy, bizarre clothes and crashing Newport and European society. In a Titanic lifeboat she took her turn at the oars before rescue by the S. S. Carpathia...
...scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...
...heart has stood the most severe strains in a wonderful manner. I beg Einstein's pardon, that I compare my heart with the shaft of a perpetual motion contrivance, which does not exist, of course...
...That shaft has been overburdened often and heavily, but not even once have the bearings run warm too much nor the metal shown any signs of breakage, or-to explain my simile-my heart has not become enlarged nor are there any signs of trouble in the valves...
...crashed at aerial maneuvers near Rome, Premier Mussolini took quick, expensive action to prevent a crack in the Italo-Hungarian entente. He despatched as a gift to the Hungarian Government a brand new Italian plane painted boldly with the words "Justice for Hungary!" Next he commanded that a memorial shaft be raised to the two Hungarian airmen who lost their lives in the crash, George Enders and Julius Bittay. Finally Italy's Dictator sent to each of the dead men's families in Hungary a present of 50,000 lire...