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Second Eclipse? Events had not moved sufficiently far this week to determine whether the new order means a fresh eclipse of the Storm Troops. Their power waned greatly after the "Blood Purge" (TIME, July 9, 1934), but in 1935 strongly waxed again. Somewhat of an enigma, Adolf Hitler keeps Germans guessing at many things. For example, the law concentrating all power in the Realmleader authorizes him to indicate how his successor is to be chosen and implies that he must do so. Yet he continues to delay. Nowadays he even delights in oratorical passages implying with throbbing pathos that...
...those who think a Harvard biddie is a meek, Maude Adams wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman who allegedly cleans my room," is a German fran of no mean tonnage and poundage, who keeps both him and his roommate completely under her thumb. Unfortunately for his relations with his redoubtable keeper the editor is far from the paragon of neatness, and at any given time his bedroom looks...
...York police, Flegenheimer himself had always been something of an enigma: a sloppy, unambitious burglar and package thief who became ruler of a great illegal beer distributing system in The Bronx, survived Repeal to go on into even more lucrative rackets. He was credited with running a waiters' union, a usurious system of small loans to the poor, several midtown night clubs in Manhattan. But the chief source of Flegenheimer's income was the policy game, the daily lottery which keeps most of Harlem's Negroes poor. Most players can bet only a few pennies...
...Africa, in which is locked the enigma...
...fascination the Press watched the Enigma Woman's fixed, prim smile as she arrived by plane in Chicago, stubbornly stuck to her story of innocence, finally declared, "Oh well, I might as well get it over with. Sure, I killed him. . . . Blanche didn't pay me a cent of the $500. ... I tried to get Harry Jung to help me cut up Ervin but he got sick at the sight of the blood. He was sitting in an automobile outside, scared half to death...