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...question, the returns from his own class, found that his students were 66% right on foreign news and 62.8% on national affairs, 46% on science, but only 29% on music & art, 32% on books. Ninety-nine percent knew what country has a Soviet form of government, what Bruno Richard Hauptmann was tried for. Almost as many could tell what the Townsend Plan is about. Scarcely any, on the other hand, could pick the reason for unusual interest in last summer's Salzburg Music Festival (TIME, Sept. 3), or name the city which was offered...
First issue of Boys' & Girls' Newspaper carried a report of the Hauptmann verdict, with heavy emphasis on the science of detection. Excerpt: "The testimony which did most to convict Hauptmann was given by Arthur Koehler . . . a xylotomist. The title is a combination of two Greek words and means a wood expert." There were reports, painstakingly simple, of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, wreck of the Macon, and even an attempt at explaining the Supreme Court's gold decisions. There were pages on sport, entertainment, books, puzzles, handicraft, housekeeping, an adventure column by Lowell Thomas, many a comic strip...
...that this great murder mystery still remained pretty much of a mystery. "Unless future events supply the gaps in the tragic story," pointed out the Baltimore Sun, "there will remain a feeling that the real key to the mystery is missing. In other words, what preceded the entrance of Hauptmann into the Lindbergh house? By what conspiracy of chance or confederacy was he able to accomplish his purpose so easily? When Hauptmann has paid the extreme penalty for this crime, the final possibility for new light on the mystery will probably have ended...
...Toledo the Blade shrieked "extras" that Hauptmann was sentenced to life imprisonment...
...more than a year. Only three weeks ago the Post had jeered at the Herald for publishing a vivid "eyewitness" description of an execution two hours before the condemned men went to the chair. Hence Editor Patterson gladly paid $20 for the copy of the Post with the headline: HAUPTMANN GUILTY BUT ESCAPES DEATH. Next day the Herald appeared with a stinging "open letter" from "Cissy" Patterson. Caption: "You Asked For It-Eugene." C. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat's behavior was most extraordinary. Its extra carried two stories, one giving the penalty as life imprisonment, the other...