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...took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering his daughter Pamela. The patriotic instinct which prompted the choice of Melba, short for Melbourne, for a stage-name persisted all her life. She often harked, back to Australian scenes and sounds, the sudden rise of storms, the bright flash of parrots' wings, the cry of magpies at dawn. Friends say that she knew she was incurably sick this autumn, wanted to get home...
Judge Lyle's candidacy is an attempt to profit politically from his sudden headline reputation as the judicial scourge of Chicago's gang world. From the bench and with newshawks closely covering him he made a great dramatic and futile attempt to have the city's 26 "Public Enemies" arrested and held in exorbitant bail under an old vagrancy law (TIME, Oct. 13). So erratic and unstable that he had scant support from lawyers, Judge Lyle focused his campaign on the charge that Mayor Thompson was in league with the underworld, that Gangster Alphonse Capone had contributed...
...boss a small property he had just inherited, and because he had changed his vacation to go take a look at the land. Then he found somebody else, using his own name, had arrived before him. Then he saw Her. After that he was carried along on a sudden swirl of adventure that might have swept away a less sturdy hero, that should carry you with it willy-nilly...
...office-buying filled the air with acrid odors. Someone traced down several of these odors and, strangely enough, found them sadly true. That someone was Isador Kresel, respected member of the New York bar, an unfailing public servant, and daemoniac detective hounding the paths of careless judiciaries. There ensued sudden resignations, mysterious disappearance and, still more strangely, several convictions. The innocent trembled with the guilty as Justice walked without its customary blind staggers...
...were obliged to restrict themselves to the meat business despite competition in meats from the grocery chains. Swift & Co. last week availed itself of this release and announced a forthcoming line of canned fruits & vegetables. When the stockholders and potent directors of Armour & Co. met last week after the sudden, shocking death of President F. Edson White, it seemed at least probable that the last active Armour in the business, Vice President Philip Danforth Armour III (Lester Armour got out last December), would be stepped up to direct Armour destinies in the new era. But after five stormy hours they...