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Like the Dutch boy at the pierced dike, the professor stuck his finger in the hole. As an excited assistant stitched up the hole, Professor Sauerbruch slowly withdrew his finger-plug, until all was laced tight, like a football. The girl got well...
...Pitiful, pitiful," groaned his Honor, Justice Norman S. Dike of the New York Supreme Court. Peering over his glasses he surveyed Lena Burlatt, a girl of 17 who had just come out of New York's repository for wayward females, Bedford Reformatory. He learned that Lena's mother had taken her to court one day 18 months ago, on her 16th birthday. Lena's mother had told the judge that Lena "stayed out late." The judge, Magistrate Leo Healy, had forthwith sentenced Lena to one year in Bedford Reformatory. She had been kept there six months overtime...
...Justice Dike told Lena Burlatt that in Bedford Reformatory, well-run though it is, "there are some vicious women, some frightfully vicious women." He advised her to forget anything she had learned there. . . . Then he sent her home with the mother who had committed her at 16 for "staying out late...
Four years ago William Atkins, naval architect & designer, and Henry Dike Bixby, former commodore of Long Island's Huntington Yacht Club, founded Fore an' Aft, "class nautical magazine," as something of a hobby. Two years ago Charles Lanier Lawrance, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and John S. Reaves, potent figures in Aviation Country Clubs, decided that a magazine of quality would help interest the wealthy in flying, founded The Sportsman Pilot. Neither magazine made money. Last week both were purchased by gruff-voiced, genial Frank A. Tichenor whose business is publishing, who has made a success of his Aero Digest...
Bert Acosta, stunt flyer and playboy, was named correspondent in an uncontested divorce suit tried last week in Long Island City, L. I. Said Justice Norman S. Dike of the Queens County Supreme Court: "I have heard of Acosta as a daring aviator. I have also passed upon the amorous activities of Mr. Acosta in a previous case, . . when another divorce was secured, so I judge he is a most active man in other people's families when he is not aviating. It is about time he was eliminated from all public activities...