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Past students and teachers who had excitedly poured from their classrooms bounded John P. Weller. Reaching the campus, he plunged into a clump of bushes, fired two more shots. His protruding legs stiffened starkly. When physicians arrived, they treated Dr. Kurz for a wrist wound, found Instructor Weller dead with a bullet in his heart...
Among those pulled to safety in the Pan American rescue launch were onetime Actress Claiborne Foster (Mrs. Maxwell Rice) and famed Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi, bound on a South American tour. In the melee someone trod violently on the musician's wrist. He announced sadly that he would not be able to play for several months...
...this handful of types comes a quietly amusing little morality play, built on such domestic difficulties as Jack's disobeying his father, Bobby's cutting his wrist, Bonnie's almost getting smashed in an automobile wreck. During the picture's two-day action the family's love and unity seem on the verge of extinction in a dozen petty antagonisms which finally vanish when a real crisis arises...
...hundred listeners below him on the floor, 600 listeners above him in the galleries, cheered and applauded as Franklin Roosevelt mounted to the desk of the Clerk in the House of Representatives one evening last week. The President unstrapped his gold wrist watch, laid it on the desk before him; removed his pince nez and laid them beside his manuscript. Then spreading his feet wide, he took a firm grip on the sides of the desk. "Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. . . ." Solemnly the best radio voice in the U. S. pronounced...
...them thrust a revolver through the left door, his accomplice entered the car from the right and took the wheel. They then sandwiched Calvocoressi between them, warned him to be silent, and drove off toward the South End. After robbing him of $10 and a wrist watch, they ordered him out of the car and informed him they would leave it about a mile further up the street...