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Such rank weeds as the late Clyde Barrow and his cigar-smoking mistress Bonnie Parker (TIME, June 4) sprang from roots deeply embedded in the darkest social soil. Loudly has the Department of Justice proclaimed its purpose not only to cut down the weeds but also to dig up their roots. Therefore last week a Federal jury in Dallas, Tex. convicted 15 grubby persons who had nourished and protected Bandits Barrow & Parker. Five others had already pleaded guilty. Given sentences ranging from one hour to two years were Bonnie Parker's mother and sister; Barrow's mother...
Such was the notice which appeared last week in the entry of a remodeled apartment house at No. 23 Barrow st., Manhattan. Men strange to the janitor had indeed been climbing the stairs to visit the new tenants of Apartment 4 C. The visitors were the intelligentsia of Greenwich Village. But the most important visitor the janitor had not seen. His name was Edward Bellamy and he had been dead 36 years...
...Vickers unashamed spoke Sir Jonah Walker Smith, the right honorable member from their naval shipyard district of Barrow-in-Furness. "The investigators of the United States Senate used gangster methods," said Sir Walker with every out ward sign of indignation. "The activities of Sir Charles Craven [Managing Di rector of Vickers-Armstrong's Works & Shipyards] have for their object the finding of as much employment as possible...
...much with him, but partly because in 1916 he picked up a certain book in a Paris bookshop, James Norman Hall went to Tahiti at the age of 33 to spend the rest of his life. That was in 1920. He is still there, still interested in Sir John Barrow's The Mutiny of the Bounty. Thousands of U. S. readers who never heard of Sir John Barrow have pored over Nordhoff & Hall's rewriting of the story (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea), are looking forward to their final instalment on the fate...
...Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle he was charged by a 19-year-old girl with being the father of her child. Last week Frank Dorbandt was in more trouble. Flying a sick boy from Point Barrow to Anchorage, Alaska, he landed at St. Johns, picked up some men who had been marooned there three weeks. When he reached Anchorage, carrying eleven passengers, a dog and 200 gal. of gasoline, a Department of Commerce inspector claimed his plane was overloaded by 2,000 lb., revoked his license...