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...modest career of German Butcher Gustav Gruebner was crowned last week with a hero's funeral. From Adolf Hitler came a lily wreath and from Kalthof, Danzig Territory, where he was killed by a Polish chauffeur, to neighboring Marienburg, East Prussia, where his grave waited, Nazi formations lined the road, saluted the remains of their latest "martyr." Poles breathed easier when Fiihrer Hitler's gesture was confined to flowers. German newspapers played down the incident. The Danzig plum was not yet ripe, so eager Danzig Nazis must wait, perhaps "until autumn," for Anschluss with the Reich. Said Danzig...
...before, a hearty blend of U. S. hail-fellowship and a reassuring, yeoman love of King and Country that was truly British. This man-to-man meeting occurred in Connaught Square at the unveiling of the Canadian national war memorial. There was a reveille, the King placed a wreath at the foot of the shaft, tall redcoats holding standards stepped away, and the memorial was unveiled. The King spoke, with what some thought was a hint to Rome and Berlin...
...closest rival. When he reached the finish line, a roar of applause greeted him. His time: 2 hr., 28 min., 51 4/5 sec.-more than 27 seconds faster than the alltime record set by Japan's Kitei Son in the 1936 Olympics. Crowned with the traditional laurel wreath and hailed as a super-runner, Marathoner Brown, a stone mason by trade, smiled feebly. Said he: "I would like to have a steady job instead...
Sullivan and two of his sons had difficulty in delivering the gifts and waited in the Statler's lobby while members of the dance committee questioned their credentials. One of them threatened to "punch the nose" of anyone who tried to take the wreath and canaries, last-minute substitutes for the doves of peace, upstairs to the ball room. When Sullivan showed his card as a Councilman he was told he should be ashamed of himself...
Objections were finally stilled with the arrival of Edward Kaufman, chairman of the dance committee, and James Sullivan, the Councilman's oldest son, presented the wreath from the Independents and released the three canaries from the box on the band platform