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...Club where it is housed during Gar Wood's speed monarchy. The last time the plaque saw open daylight was before the second heat of the Harmsworth in 1931, after Kaye Don had worsted Wood in the first trial. Race officials were so confident that Gar's eleven-year supremacy was about to end that they had the trophy brought down to the judges' stand prior to the second heat. A few moments later Don disqualified himself by beating the gun more than five seconds, and immediately after capsized in the wake of Miss America...
...increasingly frequent through the year. Railway and steamship lines advertising Holy Year tours point out that scarcely a week will pass without the Pope taking part in some ceremony. Kings and queens and ex-monarchs will visit him. Easter Sunday he will pontificate in St. Peter's, perhaps bless the multitude from the loggia as no other Pope has done since 1870. In June there will be six or seven canonization and beatification ceremonies. On the Feast of Corpus Christi in June, the Pope may visit Rome for the first time in his eleven-year pontificate...
...that he hardly ever corrected or patched what he had written. ... If he was dissatisfied ... he rewrote." Consequently his letters read more naturally than most authors'. In this 893-page collection, from which letters to Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos) are notably absent, you may follow his eleven-year hegira over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress of his love-affair with Baroness von Richthofen, first another man's wife, then Lawrence's, the tides of his friendships and quarrels, equally didactic and wholehearted. To Lady Ottoline Morrell he wrote: "Today we have a letter from Bertie...
...Attorney General's office whereby Capone was to swap a plea of guilty to income tax evasion for a light sentence. When the prosecutor came to court with this proposal. Judge Wilkerson indignantly quashed it (TIME, Aug. 10). Brought to trial, "Snorkey" Capone received an eleven-year penitentiary term and a $50,000 fine (TIME. Oct. 26). He still languishes in Cook County jail waiting final appeal...
...Robert Isham Randolph of the "Secret Six" warned the nation again about the rich, swift-growing racket of abduction for extortion, helped circulate a new gangland name for kidnappers: snatchers. Also in Chicago, more precisely in Cook County jail where he is waiting a last appeal against an eleven-year Federal sentence, "Scarface Al" Capone interested himself in the Lindbergh case. Offering a $10,000-reward for the baby's safe return, he indignantly remarked: "It's the most outrageous thing I ever heard of! I know how Mrs. Capone and I would feel. . . . If I were out of jail...