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Show Uses His Head Down the long road raced the valiant horseman spurring his steed to ever greater effort He was bringing the news from Ghent to Aix. He was the Spartan youth racing from Thermopylae to Athens. He was the heroic young officer carrying car-rying a message to Garcia. He was, wrapped up in one individual, all the great romantic bearers of tidingsnot tid-ingsnot forgetting Paul Revere. More specifically, however, he was Robert Rafel. Western Union messenger No. 297, running pell mell down the corridor on the first floor of the Chicago Daily News building. And, as he burst through the Madison Madi-son street door, Robert crashed head first through a large sheet of plate glass that workmen were preparing to place in a second-story window. When he emerged from the resulting result-ing daze, the youth found he had suffered only a slight cut on one arm. H. Eisenscimel, chief of the glazing crew, congratulated Robert on his escape and pointed out that the glass. 6 feet 6 inches by 9 feet 10 inches, was worth about $100. |