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Kings County (Brooklyn) has for district attorney no racket buster but a dapper, grey-haired Democratic politician, William Francis Xavier Geoghan (Ghee-gan). When Commissioner Heriands began probing into District Attorney Geoghan's protracted investigation of Brooklyn's fur racket, he grew mightily suspicious, started an investigation of his own. Last fortnight the two investigations clashed over an habitual jailbird named Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped...
Cole estimated that the largest dividend which will be paid to a Harvard alumnus was in the vicinity of $180 and he attributed its size to the possible purchase of a fur coat or an electric ice box. Twenty-three dividends are under ten cents and more than 100 are over $33.00. The smallest dividend cannot be less than three cents because 25 cents is the minimum purchase that dividends may be computed...
...method of identifying the virus was simple: suspensions of brain tissue taken from fatal human cases were injected into the brains of young Swiss mice. Two days later the mice showed "ruffled fur, slowing of activity, alternating with convulsive twitchings," and other symptoms similar to those of equine encephalomyelitis...
...London, publicity-wise Dress Designer Elsa Schiaparelli opened her fall show. Excerpts from the catalogue (called "Trajectory"): "Coats & jackets foretell the future, their insides stuffed with baby feathers. . . . Hats made of fur or fluff come within the realm of logic. . . . Colors take on the nature of dreams but gold sheds its earthly influence on all we wear...
...prehistoric lake in Utah last week, two 200-lb. Englishmen wrestled for a world title. One was bespectacled George Edward Thomas Eyston, 41-year-old retired British Army captain, the defending champion. The other was moon-faced John Cobb, 37-year-old London fur broker, the challenger. Over Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, considered the most satisfactory auto-racing strip in the world,* the two Englishmen, with no more fanfare than two moppets sliding down a hill to see who could go farther, took turns to see who could come closer to traveling six miles a minute-and incidentally...