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Accounting. In Hamamatsu, Japan, police arrested Bank Clerk Mrs. Toshie Suzuki after she left a note for bank officials: "I took 1,000,000 yen [$2,778] from the vault, but felt that this was much too much for me, and I herewith return...
...numbers 1 and 10 unlucky. I hope your hotel room bears a lucky number." Falling into the trap, the G.I., like as not, would tell his room number. After that, it was nothing for Jean-Louis to pose as the G.I. over a telephone and order a room clerk to turn over his suitcases to a French friend, who would shortly call to pick them up. Jean-Louis would then collect the suitcases, drive to the river and dump them in. It pleased him to watch them float unopened downstream before sinking...
...James Francis Burke, 53, a shipping clerk for Fanny Farmer Candy Shops in 1923, was elected president last week to succeed Co-Founder John D. Hayes, 71, who will remain as chairman. Burke plans few changes in the Fanny Farmer team he has helped build since he became vice president and assistant to the president...
...settled down at Vailima, their home on Upolu. Louis, who was tubercular, had traveled the globe in search of health, and the Samoan climate seemed to help. Indianapolis-born Fanny had been a pioneer of sorts in California in post-Gold-Rush days. She was married to a restless clerk-soldier-prospector, later divorced him. The easy, outdoor life in Samoa was made for her. Her enthusiasm seems to have cheered Louis; it only annoyed his mother, who hated Samoa. Fanny wrote: "She dislikes the life here which we find so enchanting, and is disappointed and soured that...
Married. Bela Lugosi, 72, Hungarian-born cinema spook (Dracula); and Hope Lininger, 39, movie studio cutting clerk, after she wrote him daily letters during his recent hospital confinement for drug addiction; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Hollywood...