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...Grand Rapids, Mich. Lorence T. Holtzlander, 63, his son Zenith, 16, and two friends were arrested, charged with stealing a 40-ton locomotive, a steam shovel, railroad tracks...
...travel to deform the child. Some deformities (webbed feet, cleft palate, harelip) result from arrested development in the second month of fetal existence, caused by disease or by physical injury to the mother's abdomen; others (birthmarks, extra fingers or toes) result from excessive development, may be hereditary. Zenith of prenatal impression stories is reached by one of paternal shock. A Mr. K.'s first wife had both legs cut off by a train, died. By his second wife Mr. K. sired a child which was born with both legs missing...
Heroine is a poor-white girl who has got herself in trouble, comes to Jefferson (Faulkner's town, as Zenith is Sinclair Lewis') searching for Lucas Burch, the father of her imminent baby. People are kind to her, especially hardworking. God-fearing Byron Bunch, who compromises himself considerably by looking after...
...early as 1910 Pianist Paderewski, then at the early zenith of his musical career, proclaimed : "The vision of a strong and independent Poland has always been the lodestar of my existence. Its realization is still the great aim of my life...