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Birthday. Lawyer Clarence Darrow, 80; in Chicago. His standard birthday speech: "Nobody has ever been able to give me proof that there is another life and I don't know that I would want it if there were...
...Chicago the original Loeb & Leopold considered they were lucky when Clarence Darrow got them off with 99-yr. sentences. Soviet Supreme Court Judge Lintin's son last week got eight years and his "dream friend" five years in labor camps. There, according to the hopeful Soviet official press this week: "They may be regenerated into the ranks of wonderful Soviet Youth." It was pointed out that if the hammer-murderers had broken a hammer in a factory, thus committing "sabotage," they might have been sentenced to death...
...true that the devil finds work for idle hands to do, the No. i U. S. Mephistopheles is currently a mild little Philadelphian named Charles Darrow. Mr. Darrow's claim to the title, based on Monopoly, U. S. parlor craze of 1936, was last week reinforced when Parker Brothers began to distribute his second invention for idle hands. The new Darrow game is Bulls & Bears. Success of Monopoly, which was last week estimated to be in its sixth million and selling faster than ever, gave Bulls & Bears a pre-publication sale of 100,000, largest on record...
...material necessary for, the solution of a serious crime. The host acts as district attorney, passes out evidence to his guests, who form the jury. Inventor of Jury Box is Criminologist Roy Post, whose other discoveries include a device for taking fingerprints off corpses. Inventor Charles Darrow, before he began to monopolize the field of after-dinner entertainment, was a prosperous engineer. When he lost his job and his money in 1930, he got along by selling gadgets, doing odd jobs like mending furniture and building his friends' fishponds in the Philadelphia suburbs. The first Monopoly board...
European translations of Monopoly concern real-estate deals in London, Paris or Stockholm. With his Monopoly fortune, Inventor Darrow has bought a farm at Echo Lake, Pa. He leads a simple, nongregarious life, likes dozing after dinner...