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Died. John Eliot Wolff, 82, professor emeritus of geology at Harvard University; of thirst and exhaustion; in the Mojave Desert, California. Motoring across the desert (where the heat often reaches 120°) for a one-day camping trip, Geologist Wolff apparently got stuck in the sand. While awaiting death or rescue, Professor Wolff wrote a codicil to his will, leaving a bequest to his gardener...
...promises of shipments from Alsace-Lorraine. An average of 100 railway carloads of fresh vegetables arrived from Holland every day but most of these were sent into the Ruhr industrial district to provide additional vitamins for nerve-racked workers harassed nightly by British raiders. Bibulous Berliners, nourishing a long thirst in anticipation of cracking the enormous stocks of wine and champagne captured in France, heard with disappointment that these stocks are being preserved intact for later conversion into foreign exchange-probably...
...quench the thirst of fighting men and machines in her desert countries and rocky islands, Italy's Navy has a unique class of water tankers. Italy's two new battleships of 35.000 tons, the Littorio and Vittorio Veneto (with two more coming up) are, until Britain's King George V class takes the sea. the world's most powerful. Italy's Navy is thus well equipped in most departments, needs only to be tested now in battle...
...Fred Sullens of Jackson, Miss.'s Daily News. He is the kind of newspaperman who once said of a politician who threatened him with physical violence: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of the Daily News will quench your thirst for human gore . . . come on and spill it-if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor is entitled to choice of weapons. [The threatener] may arm himself with cowdung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind in order that spectators...
...Nieman, founder of the Milwaukee Journal, died leaving Harvard University $1,000,000 with which to ''elevate the standards of journalism." This week for the third time Harvard picked a group of working newsmen (15) to go to Cambridge, with salaries paid, to absorb whatever knowledge they thirst after as Nieman Fellows. Chosen from 221 applicants was a catholic list...