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...well-born Jewess named Rachel, had affairs with actresses until he was 50. After that his daughter, Gabriel, became his inamorata. When she fell in love, Julius, a lonely old man tasting the futility that in most aphorisms is indelibly associated with using selfish methods to become a millionaire, crept off to Paris to die. Granddaughter of the du Maurier who wrote Trilby, daughter of Actor Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier writes with a great deal more solemnity and a good deal less charm than her grandfather, but she has aptitude and intelligence. The Progress of Julius...
...deuce eight times. It was Allison's last threat. Slick, black-haired Perry, playing a fast, confident game, used whistling cross-court drives that caught Allison crouching flat-footed at the wrong side of the court to run out the set and the next one-in which Allison crept up bravely but forlornly from...
...Sirs: A feeling of mental asphyxiation engulfed me when I had analyzed the communication published at the head of TIME'S "Letters" column, issue May 22. As the signer is a close kin of mine I am overcome with a sense of responsibility. How such an undiplomatic note crept by the family censor I cannot comprehend, but it is not for me to offer excuses. To Secretary of Treasury Woodin, Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and TIME'S artist, who were mentioned in the same passage with "Australian Bushman" and "Bloodhound," humblest apologies. The distinguished Treasury head, Colonel Howe...
...Vagabond crept out from behind a post and approached the pile carefully. He stumbled over a book. It was F. Wutenfeld's "Geschichte der Fatimiden Challfen" (Gottingen 1831). The figure came back dragging another corpse. He looked at the Vagabond, screamed and fainted. Again the Vagabond had detected the hireling of Lehman Hall rounding up the bodies of graduate students lost in Widener's stacks...
...distributors" sell the counterfeits at varying profit to honest men & women in desperate need of money, and to crooks, to swindlers. Last week in Manhattan secret service agents exposed a ring of counterfeiters who had been selling their bills at a cut rate of $15 per $100. The sleuths crept toward a loft building, dashed up stairs, smashed down a door to find four counterfeiters with their pockets stuffed with their own product. They also found an offset press, several thousand counterfeit $5 Chase National Bank notes, steel and copper plates for $5 notes. The Press was told that...