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...holster, hanging from a Sam Browne belt. He rapped Pittenger three times over the head with it. Then they took Pittenger to the police station, on the second floor over the town offices. The men broke open a door and took four bullet-proof vests and two revolvers. Pittenger saw they were not looking at him. He ran down the steps, falling once and wrenching his knee. Then he ran on again and hid in an alley. The men came out with the guns and vests. They got in a sedan and drove away...
...burning hobby with King Albert. Up to the day of his death he drove his own car whenever possible. In the cellar of the Castle Laeken was a complete machine shop where he loved to putter. In that shop he worked with his own hands on a special bullet-proof body for an Excelsior chassis. Palace attaches delicately hinted that a bullet-proof car was not quite the thing for the pacific, democratic King of the Belgians. It was given to Belgian Banker Alfred Loewenstein, who six years ago mysteriously dropped from the washroom of his airplane while flying over...
Next King Albert's bullet-proof Excelsior turned up in New York as the property of Larry Fay. loose milk and taxi racketeer who was later murdered. After riding in it for a time. Racketeer Fay presented King Alfred's Excelsior to his old friend Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. who swanked about in it until her death five months ago. To the auction block went the armored Excelsior together with a diamond-studded vanity case, a number of floor lamps and a half-dozen polo mallets. The car brought $80 from a dealer who had an idea that...
...Seniors who have not yet indicated to Notman's Studio which proof of their photographs they want inserted in the 1934 Senior Album must do so today. Otherwise the proof will be selected by Notman...
...many a tough East Side urchin as Teacher walked into her classroom next day. Before long it was plain that, whether or not 1,500 of them were insane, all 36,000 of the city's teachers were hopping mad. Indignant mass-meetings called for a reprimand, for proof, for Dr. Altman's dismissal, for an investigation of his competence by the New York Academy of Medicine. "He sees insanity in everybody," cried Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers Union...