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Honeymoon. In Sacramento, Calif., Private Carl LeRoy John started on his honeymoon. He wrecked his car, was arrested for auto theft, discovered his bride was a bigamist...
FOLIO ON FLORENCE WHITE-Will Oursler-Simon & Schuster ($2). The girl secretary of a Manhattan aircraft executive, having done time on a framed-up theft charge, is accused of killing her ex-office mate. Two keen lawyers take up cudgels for her, unearth another and very grisly murder, and by swift thinking and quick action bring the well-tangled plot to a satisfactory solution...
...Crimson got off flying in the first inning with a 2-0 lead, with Bart Harvey's theft of second featuring the rally. This achievement was only the first of many for the Crimson captain, who had his biggest day of the year with two stolen bases (both of them resulting in runs), three hits for four at-bats and two runs carried personally over the plate...
...Sheridan and her profession. Instead of working at it, she has to spend most of her time avoiding Richard Whorf, who runs with the labor-bait-ing packinghouse gang, and patching up Ronald Reagan, who likes the pickers. In a rather dull game of social significance and truck theft, the pickers beat the packers...
Demonstration. In The Bronx, while an audience watched a lie detector pick the criminal in a mock theft, a thief stole three coats and two hats...