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Poland, Two men stepped from the shadow of a stairway in Warsaw's Club of Politicians and fired three mortal shots into Minister of the Interior Bronislaw Pieracki. As they fled, someone noticed that one wore a grey tunic like that of the National Radical (Nazi) party whose newspaper Col. Pieracki had suppressed dav before...
Cuba. Provisional President Carlos Mendieta finished his speech at a naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns...
...France has given him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and honorary citizenship in Paris. His benefactions have made him Dartmouth College's Grand Old Man. Since 1927 his masons have been rebuilding the western face of the Trophy of the Alps, with an interior stone stairway ending in a great stone block which pivots open to a fine view of the Mediterranean and the road to Monte Carlo. Such relics as his men dug up he installed in a museum on the spot. Last week he stood before Augustus' renovated Trophy and gave the keys...
...Dickens as "snob, sentimentalist and egotist." Those identical qualities of Dickens caused him to be kicked down the stairs of the Louisville Gait House in the late '60s. The manager of that famed hotel put his boot in Dickens' rear and lifted him down the great stairway, to the amazement of the world. Kentucky historians record the incident. It can be verified by files of the Louisville Courier-Journal, now owned by our Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Robert Worth Bingham. I remember the uproar as of yesterday. Dickens had indulged in harsh criticism...
...Cosmopolitan), the White House and its extroverted occupants have provided a lively background for her yarn. Easy to identify are Mrs. Ball's children Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis ("Buzzie") who show a mute and dazzled Scamper the White House foyer, the State dining room, the grand stairway, the Presidential study. No pedagog, Mrs. Dall imparts to her readers only as much of Washington's historical background as Dave and Babs can remember. A direct literary descendant of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit," Scamper is screwed more tightly to possibility, will please modern children with its modern...