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...front room of Ade's rustic nine-room house. They saw his study, piled high with curios-including a life-sized cardboard figure of his friend, Will Rogers, which had once stood in front of a theatre. The neighbors strolled out past the hickory tree where James Whitcomb Riley used to sit. They sat on folding chairs on the grass to hear funeral speeches. Many had been there before as neighborhood kids, invited to Mr. Ade's 430-acre place for picnics. It was 90 in the sun now. Drawled one old neighbor: "George always did have nice...
...Baltimore Sun's Philip Whitcomb cabled that air raids so far have not perceptibly shaken German morale and may have stiffened it. Warned Whitcomb: "Germany is working at top speed on the construction of a new Europe, with endless international commissions, conferences, trade agreements, institutes." Added the Christian Science Monitor's Arno Dosch-Fleurot: "Newpapers in 17 languages support a 'New Socialist Europe' under Nazi leadership...
...Baltimore Sun's Philip Whitcomb reported that the German home-front morale had grown stronger; bombings and other reverses had united the German people, stiffened the backs even of the thoughtful who had once regarded the war as a political circus by the Nazi party...
...Business. Talon Inc. began with the harebrained idea of Inventor Whitcomb L. Judson, who had trouble lacing his shoes and decided that there must be an easier way. It grew up under Colonel Lewis Walker, who wore Judson's invention on his high-topped shoes and gave up law at the age of 60 to devote his full time and fortune to making Judson's "clasp locker and unlocker" a success...
Divorced. By Cinemactress Mary Brian, 33: Artist Jon Whitcomb, 34, painter of pretty girls; in Carson City, Nev. They married in May, parted in June...