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...order to Sergeant Major Charles Savinau for a case of hand grenades. The sergeant major told his colonel that he thought the grenades were wanted for no good end; the colonel called in the police. Savinau delivered the grenades anyway, after taking the precaution of emptying out the powder. But when he arrived with them, his eyes popped as he met a sublieutenant also lugging in a case of grenades...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose powder-puff head evolves enough publicity stunts for a Hollywood jazzster, last week got into the newspapers by suddenly calling to his valet during a rehearsal: "Teddy, bring me my horse!" Valet Teddy trotted out with a wooden buck draped in a blanket and fitted with a shiny new English saddle. Stokowski's men tittered as Trombonist Charles Gusikoff started to p1ay "Horses, Horses, Horses...
...suppressed newsreel film showing the body of the wrecker of the Bayonne municipal pawn shop as it was found last January in a mountain cottage at Chamonix. The committee, on which were several doctors, immediately noticed several facts tending to contradict the police theory of suicide. There were no powder burns visible on the body. A pistol was clutched in his left hand but Stavisky appeared to have been shot both through the right side and over the right temple-a difficult job for a suicide. Bleeding was profuse, suggesting that he suffered an internal hemorrhage. On the strength...
...bloodstained knife and a powder puff were found near the Prince body. Brushing aside the powder puff, police concentrated on the knife. In the 1820's, when pomaded romantics sniffed laudanum, read Lamartine and drank from skull-shaped mugs, a secret society known as / Carbonari (the Charcoal Burners) nourished in France and Italy. There was nothing criminal about the original members who were exiled Neapolitan Liberals, forced, like true charcoal burners, to hide in the forests. Soon they took to murdering their political opponents, and later their members were neither Neapolitan nor Liberal. Their mark was a bloody dagger...
...profit, he opened Butler Stores in every expanding section of the city, put two Irishmen fresh from the old country behind the counters of each. (In those years the red-front shops of the Brothers Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific literally sold nothing but tea, coffee and baking powder.) By 1890 Jim Butler was wealthy enough to buy his first string of horses. Ten years later he had built his own racetrack, the Empire City, at Yonkers. By 1929 he was reputed to be worth...