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...funnel" looming in the distant sky. "At first I didn't know what it was," he recalled. By the next morning he learned that it was only one of many tornadoes that had smashed through eleven states (see THE NATION); the twisters had devastated half the city of Xenia, Ohio, only 60 miles away. Witteman called New York and was told to report on the Xenia tragedy-after the game...
...well past 6 p.m., but Witteman's day was far from over. He picked up an identification sticker from the Red Cross, affixed it to his rented car, and drove through police roadblocks into Xenia. "I've never seen anything like it," he said. "It looked like a war had taken place. The whole town appeared leveled." He visited Xenia's disaster headquarters ("It was chaos") and arranged for a tour of the ruins in a police car. The human dimensions of the disaster were brought home to Witteman by the commentary of his escorts. As they...
...Born in Xenia, Ohio, in 1888, Schlesinger received his A.B. from Ohio State and his Ph.D. from Columbia. He taught at Ohio State and the University of Iowa before coming to Harvard...
...Died. Xenia Alexandrovna, 85, the Grand Duchess Xenia. eldest sister of Russia's last czar. Nicholas II, one of the few members of the Romanov family to escape the brutal murders by the Bolsheviks of Nicholas, his children and relatives in 1918; of pneumonia; at Hampton Court. England. When the Bolsheviks came to power. Britain's King George V sent the dreadnought Marlborough to Yalta to carry the grand duchess and her family to safety in England. Her eldest daughter Irene married Prince Yusupov, who was one of the assassins of Rasputin...
...that moved many of them to tears. Then they buckled down to business, unanimously elected their first Moderator: Ohio-born Dr. Theophilus Mills Taylor, 48, a teacher and architect for four years before studying for the United Presbyterian ministry, now professor of New Testament literature and exegesis at Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary...