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...cent." For the next month he lived in a be wildering maze of instructions in codes, radio transmission, photography , microphotography. His code book was Rachel Field's novel All This and Heaven Too. Soon he was sent to the U.S. to stay at Manhattan's 63rd St. Y.M.C.A. - "most of the crooks in America stay there," said his Nazi boss...
...politics well nigh outstank those of William Tweed's New York. Mickey Finn dispensed his deadly cocktails. Fifty thousand men existed solely on free lunch provided by saloons. The mass-murderer H. H. Holmes destroyed from 30 to 300 victims in the torture chambers of his "castle" on 63rd Street...
...University of Southern California: the 63rd annual Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. track meet; for the ninth time in 13 attempts ; making the teams of 29 rival colleges look like Sunday School picnickers; with a total of 711/2 points, highest score in the history of the meet; at Randall's Island, N. Y. Brightest individual star, however, was Pitt's long-striding Negro Johnny Woodruff, who won both the quarter-mile and half-mile for the third year in a row, a feat no one had accomplished since...
...balcony of St. Peter's, as twilight turned to darkness, stepped a tall, lean, greying man in white, wearing an ermine-bordered red cape. Pope Pius XII -whose 63rd birthday it was-raised his hand in the gesture of a blessing urbi et orbi, "to the city and the world...
...momentary lapse when he bungled a piddling putt, he gave his hillbilly neighbors something to chaw over. He took a two-under-par 68 on each of the first two rounds, a 69 on the third and then, after trailing Ky Laffoon by one stroke at the 63rd hole, the pride of White Sulphur Dreezed through the final nine in a whirlwind 32 for a seven-under-par total of 273 -and first prize...