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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another historic spectacle has come to the screen with M.G.M.'s "Clive of India." Ronald Coleman and Loretta Young are the principals. The picture takes Clive from his clerkship in the East India Company through his triumphs as a soldier and statesman to his final downfall...
...expert witness" for Hauptmann was John M. Trendley, 67, of East St. Louis, Ill. Expert Trendley said that his opinion as a handwriting expert had been used in 400 cases. Stressing the dissimilarities between Hauptmann's handwriting and the 14 ransom notes, rather than the similarities which had been pointed out by the State's eight experts, Mr. Trendley declared positively that Hauptmann did not write the notes. On crossexamination, Expert Trendley admitted that his "400 cases" included a number of "curbstone opinions" which he had later reversed. It was revealed later that his vocation between trials...
...fame as the first "Folsom points." Obviously not arrowheads but possibly spearheads or darts, they were broad, flat blades with slightly rounded points, chiefly distinguished from other primitive weapons by deep troughs on each face. In subsequent years typical Folsom points were found all over the Midwest, as far east as Pennsylvania, as far north as New Hampshire, as far south as Georgia. The University of Denver records 295. Meanwhile "Folsom man" and "Folsom culture" remained elusive. Were the vanished hunters who used the points really as old (12,000 to 20,000 years) as the bison, mammoth, musk...
...respectable quiet of East Side Cleveland one night last week an old man ate poisoned mushrooms, died in wriggling agony. A merchant was smothered with a bed pillow and his corpse dragged into a cellar. A prostitute let out a blood-chilling scream as she was pushed to her death in an icy black lake. Yet as the heroine of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (pronounced Muhzjensk), the woman responsible for these three atrocious murders was really a gentle soul whom only the sternest moralist would blame for her crimes...
Creator of Philbert is Frank Owen, 28, an easy-going smalltown Texan who rousted about in oil fields, refineries, lumber camps, until he got a job cartooning sports and editorials on the Dallas News. He went East, free-lanced for Judge, Life, Satevepost, New York American, landed a place on Collier's two years ago to do general cartooning. Philbert came to life when Cartoonist Owen discovered he "had been drawing him all the time and didn't know it." Many of his best ideas come from his pretty young wife, Swedish-born Vera Blomquist. The Owens live...