Lost Chaplin film found in auctioned eBay tin, and more

Lost Chaplin film found in auctioned eBay tin

A British film collector recently bought a film tin on eBay for $5 because he liked the way it looked. But the contents, it turned out, were far more interesting. Apparently unknown to the seller, the canister contained a 7-minute Charlie Chaplin movie that film historians had long assumed was lost. The movie, culled mainly from outtakes of previous Chaplin shorts, is a 1916 British propaganda effort called Zepped, in which Chaplin is shown wishing he could return to Europe to fight the Kaiser. Morace Park, who found the film, could sell it for as much as $75,000, experts said.

Ground broken for Flight 93 memorial

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Ground was broken this week on a memorial to United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pa., as passengers fought to wrest the controls from terrorist hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001. The $58 million memorial will feature a black granite plaza and the names of the 40 passengers and crew engraved in white marble; it will also have 40 memorial tree groves and a bell tower with 40 wind chimes. “These heroes did not cow down to fear,” said U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. With the words “Let’s roll”—famously uttered by passenger Todd Beamer, who helped lead the revolt—Salazar and the victims’ relatives turned silver shovels in the earth.

Yankees manager stops to help car crash victim after Series win

Just hours after winning the World Series last week, New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi was driving home on a Westchester County, N.Y., highway when he saw another driver crash her car into a concrete barrier. He immediately pulled over, ran across two lanes of traffic, and found Marie Henry of Stratford, Conn., unhurt but unable to extricate herself. Girardi stayed with her until the police arrived a few minutes later. “Most people know him as manager of the Yankees,” Henry later said. “But I will always think of him as the guy who went out of his way to help a stranger.”