Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Headlines from April 1, 1926

German Youth Will Live Here To Get Bequest of $410,782

$30,000,000 Merger of Title Companies To Create the Largest Concern of Its Kind

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Burglars Caught High in Alps After Hunt by Police and Dogs

VANDERBILT BACK WITH SEA MARVELS; Commodore at Miami After a Two-Month Scientific Cruise Which Found Many Rarities. SIX-INCH SHARKS TAKEN And Phosphorescent Fish Near Galapagos -- Sea Lion Is Caught by a Lasso. VANDERBILT BACK WITH SEA MARVELS

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