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William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's widow, at the opening of the onetime Chicago mayor's safe-deposit boxes, fainted as highly compressed wads of $20, $50, $100 and $1,000 bills sprang out. His closer chums guessed that Thompson, a son-of-wealth, had accumulated some $3-to-4,000,000 before he became mayor. But his estate was preliminarily evaluated at only $150,000. His safe-deposit box hoard to date...
...running and crouching, circling around a large mound. Three or four mounted the grassy parapet and jumped down on the other side. There was a burst of fire, and another, as grenades went off. In the foreground a soldier wearing glasses and holding an unlit cigaret between his lips sprang from the concealing greenery and ran at half speed for about ten yards to a palm tree. He landed behind this tree with his feet forward in a sitting position and his head turned mechanically to look back over the field. After two or three seconds, he lit the cigaret...
...still young, Munch fell in love for the first and last time. In a secluded village where he was painting, he learned that his beloved had shot herself and was dying. Rushing to her, he found the report exaggerated. "Hardly had I entered the room when she sprang out of bed and said: 'You love me, Edvard. I knew you would come.' We quarreled and finally she produced a revolver and threatened to shoot herself. I did not believe her, but of course I had to be chivalrous and put my hand over the revolver...
Farther north, Red armies hammered at Vitebsk. New thrusts sprang out of Nevel. Striking across dense forests south of Lake Ilmen, Russian troops had torn a ten-mile gap in German lines, cut an important railroad. A drive north of the lake threatened the great stronghold of Novgorod. Somewhere, the Stavka hoped, the German line would burst under the fierce pressure, let the Red flood through...
...team's most famous act sprang out of Jimmy's reading of an advertisement by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. It said: "Almost everyone has been induced to believe that this country is confronted by an acute shortage of timber. This is not true. . . . Wood built America. Without wood there could have been no America. . . . Wood built the homes . . . churches . . . stockades . . . corncribs . . . WOOD ENDURES . . . Wood is friendly, wood is economical...