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Often sought during the War by Imperial Austrian gendarmes, Professor Masaryk always escaped, prospered as a revolutionist, freed Czechoslovakia from Austria's rule, became "Father of His Country...
From Rosh Hashanah last fortnight until Yom Kippur last week, hundreds of thousands of Jews in Manhattan freed themselves from mundane cares, piously to pass the Jewish time of self-examination. God was balancing His books, which would be closed on the Day of Atonement. But in the teeming lower East Side one family sat in sorrow. They slit their garments. No chair or sofa would they sit on: only rough boxes. They were "sitting shivah"-mourning a dead daughter...
Last week two major kidnap deals were consummated. At a New York police station appeared Charles Marvin Rosenthal, 24-year-old stockbroker, to announce that he had been freed by kidnappers who had held him 17 days in a New York apartment. A few hours earlier a black bag containing $50,000 had mysteriously disappeared from the check room of a hotel near Broadway. Kidnappee Rosenthal, who prior to his disappearance had lost heavily on the stockmarket, said he had been dragged out of a taxicab by three men, later said a beautiful brunette had delivered him into the hands...
...Isaac Dee Kelley Jr. (TIME, May 11) and Adolphus Busch Orthwein. 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch. Inc. (TIME, Jan. 12). Kidnapped near Chicago four months ago was a gambler named James Hackett, whose seizure Investigator Roche blamed on the Burke gang. Hackett was freed...
...loose and descend by the emergency 'chute strapped upon his chest. But Private Osborne had no knife. Then another plane flew up, maneuvered above Osborne while an officer lowered a sandbag to which a knife was tied. After a half-hour's effort, Osborne caught the knife, freed himself, opened his second 'chute and landed safely in a corn field. There his irate instructors found him, angrily informed him he must repeat the parachute course...