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...richest harvest of loot that had ever fallen to the lot of American criminals." Three hundred and fifty prisoners were freed from the flaming jail, promptly broke into a jewelry store. Through the glare scurried whores, murderers, thieves, all "scolding, stealing, fighting; laughing at the beautiful and splendid crash of walls and falling roofs...
Last week the stockholders of the afternoon tabloid PM, which last June set out to crash New York City's big-time circle of newspapers, received copies of a letter. It began "Dear Sirs: I intend to form a corporation under the laws of the State of New York . . ." and it concluded "Very truly yours, Marshall Field." The letter punctuated a fact which PM's directors had already faced: that after about three months of publication PM had run completely through-and come out the other side of-the $1,500,000 cash which 18 stockholders...
...award twice before.* In 1939 she became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost a leg in a crash at sea as a Russian ace in World War I, is proudest of his feat in designing the first pursuit plane to exceed 300 m.p.h...
...wise Maxwell Perkins); 3) the scandal which George's novel caused in Libya Hill and the anguish this caused George; 4) the real-estate boom and moral deterioration of Libya Hill, and the town's collapse along with the rest of the U. S. in the 1929 crash; 5) George's four years of soul searching in sordid, proletarian South Brooklyn; 6) George's life in England while writing another book; 7) George's two-day adventures with Novelist Lloyd McHarg (in real life Sinclair Lewis, who plugged Thomas Wolfe in his Nobel Prize address...
Pistol In Miami's Negro section, Theatre Usher Jack Woodberry was hauled into court for shooting at a pickaninny. His explanation: only a pistol loaded with blanks would scare off youthful gate crash ers. Sentence suspended...