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...passengers was a Dr. Albert Voss, dentist, of Manchester. At a coroner's inquest into his death last week, the story of the disaster became stranger than ever. The body of Dr. Voss was picked up nearly two miles from the wreckage of the plane. It was not burned. Evidence seemed to show that Dr. Voss jumped from the plane. Though his 16-year-old niece Lottie was one of the killed passengers, there was a possibility that he might have set the plane afire...
...singing is secondary to the fact that words & music are ideally blended. Sometimes Tarasova's natural voice has a smooth cello quality, but she is versatile. She whispers when the mood requires it or she is a baritone fairly shouting. Because she is wife of Sportsman Stuart Fitzhugh Voss of Long Island, there were many social ites in last week's audience. Many Russians were there too who remembered songs she used to sing when she was a concert celebrity in St. Petersburg. They called her back time and again, shouting their requests...
From New Orleans came Professor A. L. Voss to invite the Council there for its next meeting, and to report on the Four Most Common Vulgar Errors. Especially to be heard in the easy-going South, they are: "ain't," "I done" or "I seen," ''them things," and "I didn't do nothing...
...Yawuz Sultan Selim slid down the ways of the Hamburg ship- builders Blohm & Voss (builders of the Europa) as the German battle cruiser Goeben. ?Speedy, heavily armored, with innumerable watertight compartments, she was as far ahead of her time as Germany's latest 1931 warship, the pocket battleship Deutschland. At the beginning of the War she slipped through the British and French Mediterranean squadrons to Constantinople, where she was nominally attached to the Turkish Navy as the Sultan Selim...
...Hermann Voss, curator of paintings in the Berlin State Museums, rushed off a boat in New York harbor bristling with indignation. "I would like to ask Dr. Toch," said he, "whether he means to oppose the opinion of the entire artistic world with regard to the authenticity of works believed today to have been painted by Rembrandt...