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...Capone, when not attending court last week, sat on the deck of his motor cruiser, clad in a dark blue bathrobe with light blue and white stripes and a pair of bedroom slippers, sucked at a big cigar, flicked a fishing line in and out of water. The Union Jack flapped about his feet. He also posed for photographers in his bathing suit...
...member of the French Garde Republicaine (special police) spied a pair of diamond earrings twinkling in a Paris gutter last week. He returned them through the Prefecture of Police to Mrs. Gates McGarrah, wife of the chairman of the new Bank for International (reparations) Settlements...
Like most people George V and Queen Mary greatly prefer musical comedy to Shakespeare. Last winter directly after His Majesty had been snatched from death, the royal pair went for the fourth time to Rose Marie, very much a bit of charming tinkle and fluff (TIME, Nov. 18). Later Their Majesties went to two or three plays without music. It was not until last week, however, that King George turned, as one eventually does, to Shakespeare and to Hamlet. It was the Bard's birthday (April 23), and Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was opening an all-star Hamlet...
...most communities that bugaboo of mothers, Measles, follows a nicely defined curve. One year the disease will be prevalent, the following year rare. In one pair of years in Manhattan the ratio was 20:1. Last year was the low point of the curve; this year is a measles year. Manhattan's public health officials are getting into action, preparing to combat the malady...
Disguised in a coffee-coloured suit and a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, the Vagabond will emerge from his Lowell House construction shake this morning for the first time in several days. Having obtained a Boston censorship list, he has been busily lining his corrugated iron den with the best of modern and classical authors in preparation for the Reading Period. However, his eager Public need not be alarmed; for, every other evening if the weather is good, he will furtively make his way through the dark Spring twilight, sidle along empty streets and longingly peer into dormitories crammed with...