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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five swooping airplanes sent bomb after bomb splashing into a dense wood not far from La Paz in Argentina's northeastern border province of Entre Rios, last week. The bullets nipped off leaves & branches, plopped into tree trunks, but not a man did they hit. Twenty-one provincial police went scurrying into the wood, shouting and firing. Fourteen scampered back. When night fell Argentina's "Three Wild Irishmen"-Mario, Eduardo and Roberto Kennedy-still held their wood. In Buenos Aires Dictator-President General Jose Francisco Uriburu pulled his long mustaches and scratched his head. He could not turn...
...Mont, to be with Lieut. William J. French, on leave from Camp Devens, Mass. Early one morning Lieut. French and Mrs. McEnroe started to motor to Los Angeles. As they approached San Jose, the officer suddenly became violent, struck his companion over the head. Then he drove into a tree. Mrs. McEnroe was picked up by a truck. Police investigating the smash-up found swarthy, curly-headed Lieut. French dead with a bullet through his brain, apparently by his own hand. Then Mrs. McEnroe, told a strange story. She said the officer was one-eighth Negro, had passed for white...
...servants who had been with Nietzsche when that philosopher went mad, who first realized that Vaslav Nijinsky was losing his mind. Nijinsky never became violent, though U. S. newspapers several years ago carried a story that he had been seen trotting round and round a tree under the im pression that he was a horse. He has always had painting materials in his room in the Bellevue Sanitarium at Kreuzlin gen, where he draws strange bugs, flower arrangements, distorted masks and faces with staring eyes. Not long ago Mme Nijinsky showed a collection of these fancies to Drs. Sigmund Freud...
...First he ordered the Lanes off the company's property. Chad hung on. Then Clayton cut down the woods to make streets for the modernized town that was to follow his coal-dusting activities. Vesper, Chad's young brother, assisted by the town-idiot Kurd Foster, saved the Weather Tree, an oak that served as sundial for the whole countryside. Thereafter Clayton concentrated his attention on coal-bricks and Thelma...
...Weather Tree is the January choice of The Book League of America...