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...Lindbergh Case ended on Sept. 19, 1934 when Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested in The Bronx, N. Y. for possession of Lindbergh ransom bills. The Hauptmann Case ended in Trenton, N. J. last week when Hauptmann paid with his life for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (see p. 18). When and how the Hoffman Case would end, no man knew last week, but the political life of New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was indisputably at stake...
Last week these performances began to look amateurish when the University of Chicago pointed with pride to Donald MacMurray, graduate of a Bronx high school at 15. Now 21 and taking up his education again after five years spent over the chess boards and bridge tables, he is seeking not only an A. B. in May, eight months after entering the University, but also his Master's degree in August. Super-Scooter MacMurray has already taken seven of nine comprehensive examinations needed for his bachelor's degree. Score: four...
...sled controversies concerned: 1) the poor condition of the run, which U. S. Driver Hubert Stevens described as "unsound" and 2) the bad effect on it of U. S. runners, which are sharper than those of European bobsleds. Most romantic casualty of the week was Donna Fox, a Bronx undertaker who, after sustaining a bruised ear when his sled tipped over on a curve, ungraciously blamed the accident on the poor construction of the run. Fastest practice runs of the week were made by Hubert Stevens, who won the two-man event at Lake Placid in 1932, and Reto Capadrutt...
...high scores with prizes. "Sportlands" (of which there were soon 60 in New York) are pin-game parlors which give to their customers coupons commensurate with their scores. Coupons can be exchanged for prizes ranging from teacups to $25 radios. Last month District Attorney Samuel John Foley of The Bronx obtained the conviction of a sport-land proprietor for maintaining a gambling establishment, had him fined $25. Encouraged by the decision, New York's Mayor LaGuardia last week announced that all 60 of the city's sportlands would be promptly closed. Pin-game players got three days...
Died. Theodore August Metz, 87, violinist, minstrel, self-styled Father of the Jazz Era (see p. 30), composer of A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, which spurred Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War; in The Bronx...