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Witness Edna Ferber has called it "chie" to attend the trial. Enzo Fiermonte declared it a "knock-out," while Dolly Madison of the Young Republicans brought her knitting and completed only three stitches. Clifton Webb called it "heart-breaking" and Jack Benny was assured "this was serious business." Lynn Fontanne thought Hauptmann a handsome young man, while the former Mrs. Jack Dempsey was sorry for him whether he was "guilty or not." Hence, whatever Cleric Burns, the interrupter on Tuesday, tried to say, seemed quite immaterial...
...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...
Most Jewish men today wait until they have passed 35 and feel secure before marrying, said Rabbi Wolf. Conversely, girls as young as 15 seek husbands. Likewise, older kalles knock at least a dozen years off their age. "If a lady has real love affairs," observed the rabbi, "she never has to go to a marriage broker...
...napping, the Milwaukee Road quickly inaugurated mile-a-minute service between Chicago and Milwaukee (85 mi.), pushed delivery of two streamlined engines for its Chicago-Twin Cities route. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. quietly announced that it would put two Zephyrs on the Twin Cities run within 60 days, knock 30 minutes off the seven and a half hour schedule...
...fire in the Kerns Hotel at Lansing killed off three House Republicans-elect, only one Democrat-elect, leaving him a Democratic House (TIME, Dec. 24). With this setback his job grows harder for he has promised to exempt food from the State's 3% sales tax. That will knock $10,000,000 off the State's revenue and $12,000,000 is what the State has been spending for relief...