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...when the party returned to Miami, Madman Joe Zangara emptied his revolver at the President-Elect, mortally felled Mayor Cermak of Chicago who stood beside his car. In the car behind sat Vincent Astor, Raymond Moley and Frederic Kernochan. A few moments before as the cars crept through the throng Mr. Astor had said to the others of his great and good friend: "Any crank might take a shot at him. I don't like this. It's too dangerous...
Sirs: 1 have just read with interest, the very excellent description of the funeral of the late King Albert of Belgium, in your issue of March 5. Mentioning the dignitaries present, you say: 'All in overcoats, a great throng followed on foot. Except for the towering bearskin of Britain's Edward of Wales, there was little to distinguish them." Can TIME possibly have erred regarding this unique head-dress?. . . DOUGLAS M. STEEL Petersburg...
...overcoats, a great throng of dignitaries followed on foot. Except for the towering bearskin of Britain's Edward of Wales, there was little to distinguish them, but here, plodding along in the fog, were half the Princes of Europe. Crown Prince Leopold led the procession with his brother, Prince Charles, and his brother-in-law, Prince Umberto of Italy. The others...
...very rich patrons, well she shall leave." Slightly annoyed, Anna meets her neighbor Jean, a taxi driver, and tells him her woes. Anna and Jean appear to be fond of one another; they quarrel; they settle their petty grievances in a doorway. The rain that had scattered the jubilant throng stops. Life is indeed pleasant. But there is a harlotish-looking friend of Jean who drops into his room and insists on staying for the night. All very innocent, of course, for Jean leaves, but when Anna goes to visit him the next morning, she can not help seeing women...
...football crowd in the land could have been cheerier than the throng of farmers, bundled in sheepskins and mackinaws, who converged one morning last week in 15,000 automobiles on Farmer Ben Stalp's place near West Point, Neb. to see the National Cornhusking Championship. They cheered and stomped lustily as, with pheasants whirring up out of the sere corn rows and the yellow ears whacking against the bangboards, Husker Sherman Henriksen of Lancaster County, Nebraska, beat 16 competitors, including the champions of Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, with a net load of 27.62 bushels in the allotted 30 minutes...