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...yellow gold open face pocket watch, crystal broken, movement No. 29716177, case No. 7875127, inscribed inside of case Sam Talmadge from Mother June 1927," with yellow woven chain attached, and gold fraternity pin marked A. U. A. 1902, Harvard, marked S. M. Talmadge 1934, and the reverse end of the chain a steel tape measure...
...nickle plated Westclock watch, with white gold chain and fraternity pin attached with initials on pin...
...other respects, Four Hours To Kill develops strictly according to the rules of its medium. In and about the lounge are revealed the interlacing stories of the coatroom boy suspected of stealing a diamond pin; the polite gigolo cheating with the wife of the owner of the department store where the coatroom boy's fiancee is a filing clerk; the detective whose daughter is about to graduate from high school; the murderer's antagonist married to the usher who is trying to blackmail the coatroom boy. The neatness of Author Krasna's construction, the pace of Mitchell...
...peoples of the world seem at times to resemble a crowd in a small room, in the center of which one or two lunatics are playing with a bomb. Each one finds excuses for non-interference, and makes futile efforts to keep as far away as possible. Meanwhile the pin, slowly, but surely, is being loosened from the bomb...
...London in the Franco-British agreement of Premier Flandin with His Majesty's Government (TIME, Feb. 11) . In Paris last week Fascist Schuschnigg, incessantly guarded by popping motorcycle police "à l'Américaine" (a distinct novelty in France), had really nothing to do except to pin upon sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun the Grand Cross of Austrian Merit and be pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Since devout Catholic Schuschnigg is a passionate Monarchist he explained to the bored, irreligious French over & over just how wonderful it would...