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His first item was a 132-page confession from one Celestino Madeiros, Portuguese garage-keeper, laborer, bootlegger, who is now awaiting execution for the Wrentham bank murder. Celestino says that he and certain members of the Morelli gang of Providence (now serving sentences in Atlanta and Leavenworth for stealing from...
THE MUSIC FROM BEHIND THE MOON-James Branch Cabell-The John Day Co. ($6). Of good publishing there cannot be too much, and the present volume introduces a new house under an old name.* Chief among the tokens that this will be a house of distinction is its announcement that...
(3 of 3) epithets, threats, and bombs on many a far-flung U. S. legation. The Department warned that extraordinary precautions would be wise (TIME, June 21), after several persons had been killed. Last week the ill-guided demonstrations came to a peak in Paris, as the day of death...
Charlotte. Their Majesties, the King and Queen of the Belgians journeyed sadly last week to a great chateau near Brussels, entered, came softly into the presence of a very old but smiling, clear-eyed princess whose retainers address her as "Your Imperial Majesty." "So it is Prince Albert," she said...
But not until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and...