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...Kruif-Parran article is a statement of the known facts about syphilis and its treatment, written in Mr. de Kruif's breathless style. Example: "And what is more dastardly than the way this microbe gangster then sneaks back out of his hiding? So that a husband, having long ago forgotten a past indiscretion, may then infect his wife. So that a mother, unaware that death has ever lurked within her, may pass it to the babe growing in her womb." Constructively, the Ladies' Home Journal backed up the article by editorially endorsing a Wassermann test for every pregnant...
Died. Christian P. ("Barney") Bertsche, 74, onetime Chicago saloonkeeper and pre-Prohibition gangster; in Rochester, Minn., where doctors at the Mayo Clinic took him for a retired business...
...more embarrassing because about a year and a half ago when you praised me for having the best Religious School- Jewish or Christian-in the U. S. [TIME, March 11, 1935], you published a picture of me that I do not possess and that looks like a gangster. I am sending you a good picture and want to tell you just what I did say about Preston Bradley. Among other things I said, "We admire him for the enemies that he has made. It is to his eternal credit, for example, that the Hitler Government would not permit...
...that some of the dialogue is amusing, but too much of it partakes of the nature of this remark, which turns up in the midst of some supposedly sophisticated love-making: "Your feet are too big." The chief character turns out to be a cheat; he's not a gangster, but merely a charming fellow escaping from a subpoena as witness in a divorce. The climax of the plot is indicated by the fact that you catch on to this long before it's revealed, but this does not make the preliminary scene that fools you any less deceitful...
...crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help of his daughter Joan (Jean Rogers), a Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness and bullets, finally defeat both gangsters and Ranger...