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...wife (Diana Forbes-Robertson) and their two small children escaped being burned to death by leaping from windows. Author Sheean sprained an ankle, singed his hair; his wife suffered severe burns. The eleven-room house, which they leased from Sinclair Lewis and his wife, Dorothy Thompson, burned to a crisp...
They got together in a lawyer's office and drew up the papers. Mr. Hudler was about to sign when Losey's Indianapolis lawyer pulled out a fat wallet, selected two crisp $5,000 bills as a down payment, planked them on the table. In a town like Noblesville you don't close a deal with $5,000 banknotes-you offer a certified check. Mr. Hudler thought it over awhile. Then he said: "I don't believe I'll sell my press...
Bizet: Symphony No. 1 In C Major (London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr; Victor; 7 sides; $4.50). A crisp, tuneful work by a then 17-year-old composer, with a hint of his later Carmen. It got its first U. S. performance only last October, here gets its first recording...
Thousands on thousands of times, in the crisp airs of 30 autumns, Franklin D. Roosevelt had flung up a long right arm, waving his hand or his hat, to the cheers of voters. In 30 years he has mastered every trick: the engaging, nonchalant hand waggle, the last artful inflection of voice, how to hit headlines in both afternoon and morning newspapers...
...Postmaster General Frank Walker's fat hands $6 in crisp bills for first sheets of new one, two-and three-cent National Defense stamps...