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...women. No serious student of the case has ever suggested that the girl who was once the best-looking model at Chanel's and who loyally bore him two children in the face of his impudent infidelities knew anything important about his machinations, except that he was a crook. Yet because she had once had possession of the bundle of check stubs which is the most notorious bit of Stavisky evidence to date she was clapped into La Petite Roquette prison last March, and there she has remained, except for a few brief excursions to testify behind locked doors before...
...Prince of the Church imposed his hands and said: "Receive the Holy Ghost." He twice prayed: "Whatsoever thou shalt bless, may it be blessed. . . ." Then & there Rt. Rev. William David ("Willie"') O'Brien became a bishop, auxiliary of Chicago and titular of Calinda. Later, taking crozier (crook), Episcopal ring, Book of Gospels, mitre and gloves he walked with his consecrators through the Cathedral, blessing his flock, returning to the altar to utter thrice a well-wishing Ad multos annos. In all the great crowd none beamed with greater pride upon the consecration of Bishop O'Brien than...
Stretched on an operating table in Baltimore's Sinai Hospital one morning last week lay a patient waiting to have his prostate gland removed. Instead of clapping an ether cone over his face, the anesthetist slipped a hypodermic needle into a vein in the crook of his elbow. In 20 seconds he lay unconscious, utterly limp. Six minutes after the operation was over he hoisted himself off the table, drank a glass of water, called for a "good big breakfast...
...Camarine mountains for 15 years. Waving his bottle, he made his speech: "Until the past few weeks, when I'd come to Manila to look up my partners, it was practically a question of begging enough money to meet my payrolls. This time it's different. . . . Any crook could finance a hole in the ground in five minutes in Manila, and he wouldn't even be asked where the hole was." Proof of Old Tom's hole was in his bottle-glittering full of gold dust. Last week when the two biggest gold mines...
Loew's Orpheum--"The Mystery of Mr. X." Robert Montgomery carries off the part of gentleman crook with his customary aplomb and ability to provide a diverting evening...