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...meet Inspector Herman Lang, employed by the makers of the famed U.S. secret Norden bombsight. He was to set up a radio transmitter and operate it. So, weighted down with instructions, fake names, five messages in microfilm hidden in his watch, and $1,000 for a starter, William Sebold returned to Manhattan...
Opening the trial of 16 alleged spies in Manhattan this week United States At torney Harold M. Kennedy solemnly told the jury he would show7 that the Nazis had. got the secret from one of the defendants: German-born Herman Lang. Defendant Lang was in a position to get it: he was final inspector of the sights in the Carl L. Norden Inc. plant in Manhattan. Furthermore, Prosecutor Kennedy charged it had been turned over to Germany in 1938. Apparently the Nazis have had it for three years during which it has remained a secret of secrets...
...best amateur golfers in the U.S. include a New Jersey printer named Billy Dear, Patty Berg's kid brother Herman, onetime world's No. 1 Tennist Ellsworth Vines and hard-boiled Jim Oleska, a Brooklyn cop with a cross-handed grip. Billy Dear was out of play last week because Mrs. Dear is expecting a little Dear this week. The rest of these low-scorers and 146 others who survived sectional qualifying tests met in Omaha for the 45th, most upsetting and least sportsmanlike U.S. Amateur golf championship...
...Little Foxes (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is a blue-ribbon adaptation of Playwright Lillian Hellman's and Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...
...Soon (Duke Ellington; Decca). Vocal by honey-voiced Mildred Bailey, with Herman Chittison and Dave Barbour accompanying on the piano and guitar...