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...parsons pipe the tunes which businessmen call. Last week in a Chicago suburb (Barrington, Ill.) there was a prodigious politico-religious piping. Occasion: "The Barrington Town Warming Plan ... a combination of the early American town meeting and the old time religious revival." Tune-caller: Barrington's biggest business, Jewel Tea Co., Inc., makers of tea, coffee and groceries, and benevolently paternalistic employer of 300 of the town's 3,500 people...
Died. Pat Crowe, 69, famed ex-train robber, kidnapper and jewel thief; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1900 Crowe helped kidnap 15-year-old Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. (now president of Cudahy Packing Co.) in Omaha, Neb. When he was apprehended five years later, he charged Cudahy with engineering the plot himself. The jury acquitted him. In 1929 the Bertillon Bureau of the Buffalo police checked the fingerprints of a suicide, identified him as Crowe. Same day Pat Crowe, then reformed, walked vehemently into Manhattan's police headquarters to deny his death...
...begin." If it failed to make him sad, the narrator continues, the incident at least enabled him to form an opinion of life. It was a low opinion, but subsequent events did nothing to change it. He became successively a bellhop, an elevator boy, a croupier, a soldier, a jewel thief, a card sharp. Women came and went: the countess in the hotel at Monte Carlo, a beautiful blonde burglar, the wife who won consistently at roulette until he married her, then lost just as steadily. (During the course of his tale, an old lady enters...
From the $600,000 collection brought by courier, Zog chose a diamond tiara, a bracelet, brooch and two rings. The courier and his jewel box then boarded a Rome-bound Ala Littoria (Italian) airliner for his journey to Paris. After crossing the Apennines, the liner plunged into fog, suddenly smashed into the slope of Mt. Altino near Formia. The jewel box hurtled clear, burst open and spread the gems over the ground. Startled shepherds clambered to the plane, found it a blazing wreck, with the 19 passengers and crew dead. They pocketed as many of the bright stones as they...
...CASE OF THE SHOPLIFTER'S SHOE -Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Shoplifting, jewel thefts and two murders solved by unorthodox, Legal Juggler Perry Mason. Less exciting than Mason's best cases, but satisfactorily murderous...