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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago this week, on the night of July 7, a Japanese private went A. W. O. L. from the maneuvers of his regiment at the Marco Polo bridge, ten miles from China's old northern capital of Peking. Apparently he had slipped off to visit a brothel, but the Japanese accused the Chinese of abducting him and holding him in the city of Wanping. Next day, although the missing man had long since taken his place in line, Japanese troops opened fire outside the east gate of the city...
Last week Moe Annenberg went fishing in the Pike County lake where Transit Magnate Thomas Eugene Mitten was drowned in 1929. Moses L. Annenberg had no intention of drowning, but he wanted to think over a scheme to start a Camden paper in the fall. It would cost a lot of money, but it might drown David Stern...
...peace as well. About ten minutes of four one afternoon the guard who patrols the new French room on the second floor found himself staring at a blank space on the wall. When he had passed by 20 minutes before it had been occupied by Antoine Watteau's L'lndifférent, a tiny (10¼ inches by 7⅞ inches) painting of a carefree youth in a rose colored cape and blue doublet...
...Mona Lisa vanished in 1911, a new confidence game flourished for a while: selling the "genuine" Mona Lisa to rich suckers who were unable to squawk when they found themselves stuck with copies instead of stolen goods. French police last week expected the same thing to happen with L'Indifférent, put a close watch on dubious picture dealers, airports and trains. The Mona Lisa was gone for two years before they found her in the thief's home in Florence...
...there will be a Thompson in every infantry squad, a chopper or two in every armored car. Pacifists still object to war, but few of them still object to arming against it. Old General Thompson, living among his memories in the modest home of his son at Great Neck, L. I., will have some advice to give as an unofficial technical consultant. At 80, he thinks his knowledge may come in handy...