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...Frock-Coated Floggees
Sirs: In TIME, July 18, photograph of a man in overalls is shown with his hands chained aloft being flogged for theft and sale of ice box upon which he realized the sum of Three ($3) Dollars. Question:-Have any photographs ever been taken of men in frock coats being flogged for scuttling millions from banks, building & loan societies, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera? LEE K. STROBEL Los Angeles, Calif. TIME has never seen any photographs of frock-coated floggees, will most certainly print, as of maximum news value, the first such photograph available...
...Eardley, the dairyman around the corner, was like the rest of his family, the color of milk, or that the local barber should bear the name Cutbeard. Small Compton Mackenzie thought it only natural that Dr. Arden, who lived at No. 1, should, with his lanky frame and short frock coat, incarnate the figure 1. Mr. Lockett, living at No. 3, had carroty curls that puffed out beneath his curly-brimmed silk hat "in a very three-like way." And who should live at No. 13 but the highly un fortunate Spinks. He was the impecunious editor of the weekly...
After 20 years in which he had made the Adlon Berlin's most famed hotel, obsequious, frock-coated Manager Ewald Kretschmar resigned. Smartest Berlin hotel is the Esplanade, but the Adlon's bar is a rendezvous where everyone meets everyone sooner or later...
...public will support it, or if a backer can be found, the Woman's National Symphony Orchestra plans to be a permanent, touring organization. Conductor Leginska will pack up her spare frock-coat then. Violinist Eileen Mayo will abandon the schooner aboard which she lives. Horn-playing Suzanne Howitt will leave the women's club of Teaneck, N. J. Eight other ladies will shoulder their double-basses, pretty Doris Smith her colossal tuba...