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...know what stock prices are or exactly what the dollar is doing. If the listener-in gets tired of any of these things-for example, if he gets fed up with one of my public utterances -your industry has provided a simple remedy in the shape of a little knob. . . I only wish that all other matters could be dispensed with so easily." Elected an honorary life member of the New York Evening Sun's Sun Club was Elder Statesman Elihu Root, 88. onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1912). onetime Sun dramatic critic, onetime...
...hostile editor as "one litre of castor oil" (slightly over one quart) administered by Storm Troopers who then waited and guffawed at the result. Such tactics, copied from Mussolini, were often better than beating, but Dr. Goebbels has no need of them today. He held in his thin, knob-knuckled hands last week a new National Press Law making it a crime to practice journalism in Germany except as a licensed member of a nationwide closed shop. Der Reichsverband der Dentschen Presse, headed by Dr. Goebbels...
Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) is a loud, muddleheaded, arrogant publican, proud of his door-knob derby hat and the biggest barroom on the Bowery. He dis trusts women, entertains a sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When...
Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...
...leaned, graceful and impassive, against a small table by the fire. Now he moved. Slowly, easily, he limped across the great carpet and paused at the white paneled doors. "What a pity," he remarked, "that such a great man should be so ill bred." Quietly he turned the knob, and disappeared down the long hall...