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...days their bodies lay unclaimed in the City Morgue before a detective thought to trace the black lace evening gown which he found in the crone's drawer. Then Broadway knew that "Apple Annie" was dead. Her real name was Helen McCarthy. But for five years, known only as Apple Annie, she stood in a little alley off Times Square, hawked apples & oranges & gum. There Sportswriter Damon Runyon passed her many a day and on one of them he had an idea. The idea became a story, Apple Annie. The story became a moving picture, Lady...
...Germany's great Disconto Gesellschaft. The Government bought the building last year "as is" and it remained empty until last month. When the Ministry of Economics then moved in Dr. Schmitt exclaimed, "That mountain of mahogany is no desk for me! I want something smaller, with a big drawer for cigars...
Learning as they went along, the Woodyards developed the policy of leaving each paper severely alone editorially, keeping a hawkeye on its cash drawer. All an editor-manager had to do was show a fair profit If he failed, his chiefs, directing affairs from Spencer, might cut him down to a one-man shop, might even erase his paper entirely. Hence, Woodyard papers have paid dividends from the start, earning $3.40 - share on 3,500 shares of common stock in the last six months. And they do not bear the stamp of chain journalism...
Once again Premier Saito's Cabinet seemed about to collapse under him. His veteran Finance Minister, Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi, Hideo's Cabinet boss, had a resignation ready in his top drawer. Premier Saito told newshawks: "It's one damned thing after another...
Raiding parties of French police, each one accompanied by a magistrate, descended on the homes of seven junk dealers. Only two of the raids were productive. In suburban St.-Ouen police found 50 rifles and automatic pistols, and a table drawer full of cartridges in the home of Leopold Dancart, "collector." Even so the Dancart Collection was not what it was in 1926 when police ferreted out 350 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition and a few machine guns. In the junkshop of one Beranger Gruyer police found 27 automatic pistols...