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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overnight last week, all this evidence as to the mind, character, instincts and aspirations of Richard H. Crowe lost its validity, and he became a stranger to all who knew him best. The National City discovered that $883,660-the largest sum ever stolen from a Manhattan bank-was missing from a vault at the branch bank...
...widow's red plastic handbag in the yard of an abandoned factory, Haigh was arrested. London's liveliest dailies splashed the story over Page One. After reporters learned that the Yard was hunting five other missing persons, the tabloid Mirror, the world's largest daily (circ. 4,000,000) and London's most sensational, promptly cried "Bluebeard" and headlined: HOW MANY RICH WIDOWS DIED...
Exhibition of the world's largest captive dip-duck will take place today at noon, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, publicist of Harvard's AVC, announced last night...
...students make up .7 percent of the Freshman Class. In Group II (two A's and two B's) there is seven percent of the class. 15.6 percent made Group III (four B's) and 23.8 percent made Group IV (two B's and two C's). the largest number of students, 370, or 27.5 percent, was placed in Group V (four C's). 7.4 percent of the class is barely passing with three C's and one D, and 18 percent is in the unsatisfactory group...
...bestseller lists, said S.R.L., reporting bookstores are not weighted as to sales volume. "Thus, the Greenwood Book Shop in Wilmington speaks with the same power as Marshall Field in Chicago, largest book outlet in the Midwest . . ." It cited Harcourt, Brace & Co., which had checked the actual publishers' figures of other bestsellers against the sales this year of its The Seven Storey Mountain, which was in eleventh place in the Times nonfiction list. Said Harcourt a month ago, in an ad in the Times: Mountain is actually leading the list. If any publisher could show better sales on a "list...