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Most notable violator of that rule is Frank O. King, who draws "Gasoline Alley" for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Fourteen years ago grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years rolled by Frank King let Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling...
...Wall Street, month ago, a frayed old man wearing a sandwich sign picked a wallet out of the snow. The wallet contained $42,000 in negotiable securities, which 67-year-old Frank Grigoris turned over to a policeman. Overnight Frank Grigoris tasted sudden fame, saw his picture in all the newspapers, collected a reward ($100), got a new job, as messenger boy ($70 a month) at Belden & Co., the brokers who owned the wallet...
...aged, indigent parents with a money gift. The parents, who keep the village inn, fail to recognize him when he asks for lodging. Planning to surprise them in the morning, the son retires for the night. But the greedy innkeepers, who have seen their guest's bulging wallet, butcher him in his sleep. In his wallet they discover identification of their son. Most versions end with the parents in remorseful suicide...
Sisk was telling how he questioned Hauptmann after the man was arrested with a $20 ransom bill in his wallet and $14,600 of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's currency hidden in his garage and house...
...Violette Nozières was too hasty in calling for aid, for her mother was not quite dead when the ambulance arrived. The girl stole 1,500 francs from her dead father's wallet and spent a riotous week in Montmartre bistros, living successively with a German, a Negro, an Egyptian. She broke with each in turn when he expressed the hope that the police would catch the murderess about whom all the papers were writing. Finally a young student recognized her from her published photographs, turned her over to the police...