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...German girl dawdling home from school is spoken to by a pudgy, rubber-faced young man; he admires the ball she is bouncing and, whistling a snatch from Peer Gynt in a strange, convulsive way, buys her a funny balloon. Presently you see the ball rolling out of a clump of bushes, the balloon, caught in telegraph wires, bobbing crazily in the wind...
...done it since 1920, had finished his third round in 68, a new course record, leaving him only four strokes behind. Rattled by the news, Sarazen took a nervous five at the loth. At the nth he mistimed his drive and the ball landed in the one clump of grass in an ugly wilderness of hazards called the Himalayas. He recovered for a par and the Prince of Wales watched him sink a 20-ft. putt for a birdie on the 14th. At the 18th he needed a 4 for a 74. He smashed a perfect drive and asked...
Died. Violet Sharpe, 28, of Tupps Clump, England, maidservant in the home of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow; by her own hand (cyanide); in Englewood, N. J. She had been sharply questioned by police investigating the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. She seemed timid, reticent. Just before she was to be questioned further regarding one Ernest Brinkert. taximan of White Plains, N. Y., with whom the police were led to believe she went riding on the night of March 1, Maid Sharpe took her life, apparently in a fit of nerves. Later the police were forced to exonerate not only...
...pursued, that the hounds, far behind now, were barking at something else. Had the rabbit been sufficiently curious to double on its tracks and see what had caused the hounds to stop, it would have seen an extraordinary sight. The hounds were baying wildly around a thicket in a clump of woods behind the Phipps polo-field. Into the thicket, to find out what was there, went Mrs. Hitchcock's whip. He caught sight of a man. saw the man disappear into a hole in the ground. Amazed, Mrs. Hitchcock ordered her whip to tell Mrs. Phipps...
...body of a good-looking red-headed woman was found sprawled in a clump of bushes by the side of Mosholu Avenue in New York's Van Cortlandt Park, early one morning last week. It was identified as Benita Franklin Bischoff, alias Vivian Gordon, a racketeering lady of light virtue. She had been strangled to death with a clothesline. With the discovery of her corpse, the city's fetid judiciary investigation, hitherto concerned with Extortion, Bribery and Corruption, now had to reckon with Murder...