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Three Dates. The State detonated its last great testimonial charge with Witness Koehler. But in the week preceding his appearance it had arduously laid another mine under the defense with a string of witnesses which tied Hauptmann to the crime on three crucial dates...
...Since the able mossbacks of His Majesty's Government do not choose to allow advertising to be broadcast from any station in Great Britain, their firm stand creates a facile opportunity. Some smart pioneer could sign up a string of small Spanish, French and other European stations, put on attractive programs in English, bombard the Islands with advertisements...
Tobaccoman Reynolds' brother William Neal, a great tobacco buyer, is the only Reynolds active in the company today. At 71 he is chairman of the executive committee. But Reynolds Tobacco has a long string of first class executives. Bespectacled Bowman Gray, a great tobacco salesman, is chairman of the board. Suave, meticulous S. Clay Williams left the presidency last spring to become vice chairman, was succeeded as president by Bowman Gray's brother James, who announced the earnings last week. Messrs. Gray and Williams produce no cigaret except Camel, but they can usually count on extra income from...
...what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...
...prison on Aug. 1. Month later when Mr. Lomax was sitting in a Texas hotel he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Lead Belly, saying: "Boss, here I is." His knife bulged in his pocket. In his hand was a rickety green-painted guitar held together by string...