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Died. Ralph Emerson Stout, 60, managing editor and large stockholder of the Kansas City Star, at Kansas City, Mo., of heart disease...
...Georges Pierre, 55, racked with pain on an adjoining bed, found himself unable to sleep, thought to silence M. Clet's groans and snores by whaling him with a stout leather belt. The ruse succeeded. Quiet soon reigned. M. Pierre slept...
...Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.) and, finding the Burdens there, took them on a reconnaissance flight over the island's jungled, mountainous interior. Sighting the quarry from the air, the Burdens fetched their comrades to the spot, taking along bear-traps, stout cages, rifles. Slain deer and boars were used to bait the lizards up to a screen, behind which Chinamen cranked the expedition's cinema camera. The hunters saw one huge reptile chase, catch and drag down a horse. Several specimens were shot and will be mounted for the American...
...their tour manager, Mr. Robert Grinsel, to disperse the heathen who barred their way. He, resourceful, secured from the resident French commander at Beirut an armed motor convoy and an armored train. Ninety-five of the tourists motored in trucks bristling with machine guns. The rest entrained behind stout armor plates from which bristled French 75's. No sooner were they quartered at the two principal hotels of Damascus than the usual evening bombardment of the suburbs by the French garrison began...
Engineer William B. Stout, Henry Ford's air chief (TIME, Aug. 9) predicted: "Airplanes will be made so safe and at such a reasonable cost during the next five years, that the average man who owns an automobile will be able to buy a plane. . . . The man on the ground has an idea that airplane riding will make him sick and be too thrilling. As a matter of fact there is not as much 'kick' in flying as there is in fast automobile riding...