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...Paris Prison La Petite Roquette last week Dictator Mussolini's self-styled onetime intimate, Mile Madeleine de Fontanges, shooter fortnight ago of a French diplomat whom she accused of breaking up her affair (TIME, March 29), wrote day & night with the energy of a newspaperwoman scorned. The police had impounded her diary and she was writing it anew, from memory-about 30,000 words...
...short life of Christmas trees and their festal market has inspired produce dealers to describe this sideline to their business as "the greatest of crapshooting games." Greatest U. S. Christmas crap-shooter was a Manhattan jobber named George Blanck, who cornered the market in 1916. He was supposed to have made $100,000 that year. In Portland, Me. people still talk about old Edward K. Chapman, who was for years a towering figure in the Christmas tree trade, although he never gave a Christmas present in all his life. Bearded as snowily as Santa Claus and a lover of balsam...
Diplomat McGrady. Out of all this will come only one sure thing: work for Ed McGrady. He has always been the New Deal's labor trouble shooter. Taken from his job as chief lobbyist of the A. F. of L., he was made General Hugh Johnson's labor-aide on NRA, soon after Assistant Secretary of Labor, began his travels from strike to strike. In 1933 he went to Uniontown, Pa. where striking United Mine Workers were meeting. In one speech he persuaded them to accept a truce and go back to work. In 1934 he spent...
...Grosse Pointe, Mich. For Packard's Wartime airplane plant he developed the U. S. Army's Selfridge Field air base. For motorists he pushed to completion the Atlantic City-to- Oakland Lincoln Highway (U. S. Route 30), first U. S. transcontinental hard-surfaced highway. A pioneer skeet shooter, he once held a world record of 157 consecutive breaks...
Fraser Curtis was imported from the Yardling field to throw passes, impersonating left-handed Pete Nistad, Cavalier sharp-shooter who pitched two touchdowns against Navy, Curtis is the only southpaw passer on both Varsity and Freshman squads...