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...diverted from his routine that he goes not to the office but forthwith to a very low pub where he falls in with a group of down-at-the-heels race track touts. It has been Erwin's harmless amusement as he daily rides the Ozone Park bus to dope out the day's horse races and figure up his paper profits. He shows the boys his predictions for the races and, desperately they lay their last "fin" as he indicates. His horse comes through and so do all his other prognostications for the day. The "boys" adopt Erwin...
...first three or four attempts on the detective's life. He may never grasp the delight at the inevitable final threat, appalling as it always is. For we fans know that Charlie has only covered three or four cities in the world. This time it is Shanghai and a dope ring...
...York last week Dr. Gordon M. Kline of the U. S. Bureau of Standards told the American Chemical Society that aviation's fire hazard could be conquered by a new kind of airplane "dope" which is noncombustible even when covered with burning gasoline. Content of the new "dope": cellulose acetate, boric acid, borax. Significance: possible revival of fabric instead of all-metal construction...
...White House are altogether too pliable in the dexterous hands of Franklin Roosevelt last week had a taste of the President's professional hospitality. Mr. Roosevelt set aside an evening for a heart-to-heart with the American Society of Newspaper Editors. With high hopes of getting "inside dope" from an evening's interview, the editors marched in. The President greeted them cordially, talked to them at length, hardly allowed them to get a question in edgewise. Coming out by the same door wherein they went, one editor summarized their off-the-record interview...
...nine meets B. U. Wednesday on Soldiers Field, if the weather man does not object, and is favored to win an easy game. As yet, the starting pitcher has not been named, but the dope favors Frank Wood, the starter against Georgetown...