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Surrounded by empty money bags, Harry P. Shea, 74, retired head of a chain of dry cleansing stores, was found slain today in the fur storage vault of the company's main office in Cambridge. Chief of Detectives Patrick J. Ready said the elderly Shea was apparently ambushed inside the...
Seven other amendments were voted down. One offered by Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy to put quotas on Russian furs was defeated only after a tie vote was broken by Alben Barkley, exercising the Vice President's prerogative for the first time. Then the Senate approved the bill itself...
We moved to the adjoining room to see a 16-mm. American film with German subtitles, called Yours Forever-an export version of Mrs. Parkington. It dealt with millionaires who had squandered their own lives and their ancestor's hard-earned money. The opening shot showed children singing carols...
Sonja Henie, robbed of $28,000 worth of furs last January when thieves broke into her Manhattan hotel room, was robbed of $35,000 worth of furs and clothes by thieves who broke into a truck carrying her luggage.
Last week part of the Schloss collection was on the move again. It was up for auction at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris, in the biggest art sale held in Europe since the war. Nearly an hour before the auctioning began, every little gilt chair in the great, red-velvet...