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Moscow's Izvestia and Boston's Christian Science Monitor have one editorial policy in common: Neither prints crime news unless there is some extraordinary reason for doing so. Moscow readers unfolded their copies of Izvestia last week and found themselves staring into the sightless eyes of a corpse, a middle-aged grey-bearded corpse in flannel underclothes with a cord and a leather belt knotted tight about his scrawny neck. Below the picture was a caption: "Who Is This...
...were two skeletons, the bones of a third; Andree's head, in many fragments, had been found later (Universal Service). There were two bodies, Andree's and Fraenkel's. Andree "had been found in a sitting posture, reclining a little to the right and facing as if staring from sightless eyes. . . . [one] side of his face was recognizable and life-like.'' (New York Times). Universal Service was accurate...
...President, the latter's good friend, Senator Jones of Washington, author of the famed Five & Ten Law, announced: "The President believes in Prohibition as sincerely as I do. . . . The President is doing his best." Which prompted Senator Borah to thunder again. Said he: "Washing your hands with sightless soap in the presence of the President will not bring effective service...
Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, onetime dentist, lives on a secluded island in northern Minnesota, striving to recover health lost in the service of his country. Last week his regular Republican colleague, sightless Senator Thomas David Schall, stopped at the Minnesota State Fair, urged his constituents to offer prayers for Mr. Shipstead's recovery, "although he is not a Republican...
...Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, 36, of Berlin, trans-Atlantic flying partner of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice (TIME, April 23); after a stomach operation; in Berlin. His career was brilliant, despite great physical odds. From boyhood his heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married, he often...