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...length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry Houdini. This Halloween was the tenth anniversary of Harry Houdini's death in Detroit...
Loudest and busiest campaigner for his Party's cause is Republican Vice Presidential Nominee William Franklin Knox. Last week, before a quiet audience in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, he had reached the point in his remarks in which he declared that New Dealers were no longer as interested in Karl Marx as in the Literary Digest poll. Shouted the Chicago Daily News Publisher: "The Administration . . . is no longer trying to reorganize America; it is just trying to get votes...
Generalissimo Franco this week paid a return call by air on General Mola at Burgos where both appeared on a balcony with the snowy-bearded, inconsequential figurehead of the Revolution, Provisional President Miguel Cabanellas, later prayed in the Cathedral at the shrine of heroic El Cid, Eleventh Century Savior of Spain. Said Mola: "We do not want Spain split by class hatreds. We will stop exploitation of the workers who today are suffering misery born of discontent and stockmarket manipulation. Spain's national economy was ruined by greed...
Townfolk of Huntington, L. L, seeking to purchase as a shrine the modest house where Poet Walt Whitman was born, frothed when Owner John D. Watson demanded $30,000, frothed even more when Owner Watson advertised that its location was ideally suited for a roadside saloon...
...killed and wounded. Banzai was the word for it. Togo lived a long time after that, but never so fully again. By the time of the World War he was no longer on the active list. His battered old Mikasa, laid up too, was made a national shrine. An unpretentious hero, as Chief of the General Staff he plodded on as he always had. Even naval men thought he had left out something or had taken a lot for granted when he thus gave away the secret of his success: "The great secret of winning a naval engagement...