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MURDER OF A MISSING MAN-Arthur M. Chase-Dodd, Mead ($2). With a carload of near-witnesses, including a New York detective, it takes a sharp-eyed little spinster to ferret out both the identity and the murderer of the corpse in the end compartment. The voluble Mr. Goldstein helps...
...Popular Mechanics. And some of them have unbent sufficiently to go to their customers instead of waiting for their customers to come to them. Led by Pennsylvania R. R., a group of eastern carriers went to their customers last week with a collection and delivery service for less-than-carload-lot (l.c.l.) freight shipments...
...character from Cervantes is illiterate Juan March, "richest man in Spain." He rolled up to the yellow stucco Rock Hotel at Gibraltar last week with his jailer and a carload of friends, thumbed his nose at the Government of Spain and went to bed. Sallow Castilians slapped their thighs and swore that Por Dios, Juan had done it again...
...They roused him with flowers, they roused him with telegrams, bottles of wine, boxes of cigars (Chancellor Hitler does not smoke, drinks nothing stronger than beer), Easter eggs, Westphalian hams, lumps of sugar for his police dogs. Back in the Chancellery in Berlin the presents came in by the carload. Sofa cushions were the most popular, there were over 1,000 of them; also clocks, books, pictures, rugs, clothes, a birthday cake weighing 170 lb., dogs, canaries, parrots, and a saddle horse (Chancellor Hitler does not ride). Most appealing was a box of pretzel mice from the children of Hameln...
Alice Brydon Ritchie, widow of Harold F. ("Carload") Ritchie, famed Toronto 'salesman who distributed Eno's Fruit Salt, Glover's Mange Medicine, Rubberset Brushes, Tanglefoot Fly Paper. Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian Cream all over the world (TIME, March 6), was elected president of her late husband's distributing firm, Harold F. Ritchie...