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CRIME AND DESTINY-Johannes Lange -Paper Books (50?). Which is more important, heredity or environment? Johannes Lange is a German and therefore methodical. He is a criminologist and therefore curious about human behavior. Lange had heard many an argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom...
Mark O. Prentiss, criminologist, prime organizer of the National Crime Commission, returned from lunching with Charles Henry Tuttle, New York Republican Nominee for Governor, to find one Charles Faye, 22, looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said...
With great ado he summoned the four parents and their disputed infants before a "court." Benched together were a criminologist, an anthropologist, a dermatologist, an ophthalmologist, a psychiatrist, an obstetrician, a pediatrist, a pathologist. The scientists inspected parents and progeny minutely. Mr. Watkins, a traffic-manager, scrutinized the boy whom the Bambergers' possessed, suddenly cried: "His hair is turning red. He's mine. My baby by my first wife has red hair." The "court" ordered him to hush, retired for the day to write out their individual decisions...
Pressed by public dissatisfaction with the handling of the Rothstein murder case (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928), New York City's popular, publicity-loving Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker chose not a criminologist but a capable diverter of public opinion to be police commissioner. It was his longtime official greeter of distinguished guests, efficient and immaculate Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, general manager of Wanamaker's Department Store...
Dishonored Lady. Every well-informed criminologist remembers the case of Madeleine Smith of Glasgow who poisoned her lover because he was trying to impede her marriage to a moneyed man. This incident has been used by Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon as the basis of a new play in which appears Katharine Cornell. Madeleine Smith was real, and the playwrights have sought to impart a like reality to their heroine. She lives in a sedate, tapestried mansion in Manhattan's Washington Square, has a dignified father, a smart dress shop on Madison Avenue, a generous and platonic gentleman friend...