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...Criminal Mind. In Camden, N.J., police were hunting the burglar who jumped from Miss Helen Larkin's window, then rushed back into the house and retrieved his shoes. In Louisville, police nabbed two men as they returned to the scene of the crime to recover their tools...
...pocket money (he sang in church choirs and in a synagogue) while he finished up at Columbia Law School. With his degree in his pocket, he spent the summer of 1925 on his first & only trip to Europe (London, Paris, Brussels), returned to enter the Manhattan law firm of Larkin, Rathbone & Perry. At the same time he jumped into local politics, worked his way up from Republican doorbell-pusher to precinct captain. He was a 29-year-old, $8,000-a-year law assistant with McNamara & Seymour when he was called into public life as chief assistant...
...among the heirs.* The Klebergs got 431,000 acres and formed the King Ranch Corp. with Bob as president and manager, and Dick, then a Congressman, as chairman. The stock is held in equal fifths by Bob, Dick, their sisters Henrietta (wife of Celanese Corp. Vice President John A. Larkin), Mrs. Alice East, and the two sons of Sarah (who was killed in an auto accident). By purchase, Bob Kleberg has built the ranch's holdings up to 750,000 acres, leased 140,000 more to the corporation from his own holdings as trustee of his mother...
...Shaw & Larkin. One day a friend told him about Bernard Shaw: "the cleverest Irishman the world knows, Sean. A wit of wonder. A godsend to men who try to think." Another day he listened to Jim Larkin talk at Liberty Hall in Dublin-about the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, the "red flag rather than the green banner...
Lucky Strikes. In Cornwall, Ont., Raymond Larkin stomped downstairs to investigate his flooded cellar, ran happily back with a 17½-inch pike...