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...Balzac, is one in which "money is the lawgiver, socially and .politically," when, for money, "people fight and?devour one another like spiders in a pot." Running to 795 pages, told in 104 cinematic scenes, House of All Nations takes for its pot the luxurious Paris private bank of Bertillon & Cie., described by its head, elegant, cynical, lucky, grandly deluded Jules Bertillon, as "a rich man's club: a gambling, deposit and tax-evasion bank ... a society dump" doing business in "grapples, clinches, blackmails, plunges, lucky breaks, long odds, lowdowns, big gambles, and secret bookkeeping...
...French General Staff, was arrested on a charge of selling military secrets to Germany. Court-martialed, he was convicted of high treason on the basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that Dreyfus had been shamelessly railroaded, Novelist Emile Zola, backed by Clemenceau and Anatole France, wrote his celebrated J'accuse, an open letter to the President of the Republic. Tried and convicted for libeling...
...donations," he could not contribute. Nevertheless, the campaign netted $105, provided Caroline Decker with a typewriter, an ample supply of ribbons and paper.-ED. Egg-Sucking Switz Sirs: Re: One-hole Egg Mystery. The skepticism of your correspondent. Mr. William Tarrant Jr. (April 20 is worthy of a Bertillon! He is correct in believing that the great one-hole egg mystery will undoubtedly "make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats off and scratch their heads," even despite your learned editorial note on how expert zoologists empty eggs with fine silver tubes and air pressure. For it happens that...
Died. Louis Jean Baptiste Lépine, 87, "The Little Man with the Big Stick," longtime (1893-1913) Prefect of the Paris Police; in Paris. He introduced bulletproof vests and sulphuric acid capsules (forerunner of tear gas): the Bertillon identification system: the "Mouqin merry-go-round," "sedative marches" and the "ambulance dodge"-ruses to keep ugly-tempered crowds from forming...
...Ralph H. Thurber was a liar, an unskillful liar. He said his mother lived in Philadelphia. Cleveland authorities tried to locate his mother in Philadelphia. Actually they found her at Lockport, N. Y. Forthwith they took Thurber's fingerprints. The prints indicated a Bertillon record which showed that the man had been in California, Ohio and New York prisons for forgeries most of the time he claimed he was in the Far East. As a forger he was inept. As a missionary he was fluky. But where did he get his worms? That remained Cleveland's puzzle...