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DESTROYING ANGEL-Norman Kline- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Tangled domestic relations, entwined with murder, bring Detective Jones to Up-the-Hudson society. Loud boorishness relieves him of the case, but a hunch proving correct brings the solution and his recall...
Died. Charles Howard Kline, 62, one-time Mayor of Pittsburgh, convicted last year of official malfeasance; of apoplexy; in Pittsburgh. A florid, prognathous man with a taste for flashy clothes, he was the only Pittsburgh mayor to serve two successive terms under the city's present charter (which dates from...
Married. Nona McAcloo Martin, 19, granddaughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Mahlon Kline Jordan, 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Whitemarsh. Pa. Senator McAdoo flew from Washington to give the bride away, arrived 15 minutes late, had to sit in a rear pew while the bride's stepfather, Clayton Platt Jr.. substituted...
Pittsburghers used to know their Mayor Charles Howard Kline as a "good fellow" who liked the public eye and hid a tendency toward plumpness with snappy, well-tailored suits. Since he was convicted last May of official malfeasance in the purchase of city supplies (TIME, May 23). the Mayor has made less than half a dozen appearances before the City Council, fewer public speeches. In Butler, Pa. one day last week he snapped at his oldtime friends, the Press photographers, when they crowded around him. They wanted to snap him because he had just been sentenced to six months...
...counsel obtained a stay of sentence by appealing to the State Supreme Court, which will hear the case Oct. 2. Should the appeal fail Mayor Kline will go to the Allegheny County jail, there to join his onetime Director of Supplies Bertram L. Succop, whom he dismissed when the investigation into municipal buying began...