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...that her family's Bible had been destroyed by fire in 1896 when she was eleven years old. She said she recalled 160 pictures and biographies in the Bible, described the photographs in detail, said that Wilson Strickland's picture had been torn out of the lower left-hand corner of page two after he had quarreled with his father. Opposing attorneys tried for two days to cross-question her into inconsistencies, had no luck at all. One woman claimed that Wilson Strickland was buried in her family graveyard in New Orleans beside Napoleon Bonaparte and John Paul...
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox last week showed that the Administration has more than one way to skin a cat. On the ultra-public arrival of the crippled British battleship Malaya in New York harbor (TIME, April 14), he delivered merely a smart left-hand rebuke to newspapers which published the fact-without hint of reprisal. But last week, at his instigation, the Civil Aeronautics Board went after the license of the commercial pilot who flew a New York Daily News photographer out to snap the Malaya. Charge: flying too low over city and harbor...
...England in 1929, advertisers withdrew, leaving a disastrous gap in the revenue. Finally in 1939 finances demanded a complete revision of format and policy. The Transcript under new management blossomed forth with the "Newscope," front page pictures, headlines and unfamiliar makeups, without the usual Jay ad in the left-hand corner. But the five cent tariff and fatter editions failed to offset the continued small circulation...
...member of the British Labour Party. He and dark, lean, taut Sir Oswald Mosley (now imprisoned leader of British Fascism) stood for Parliament at the same time, quit the Labour Party at the same time. When Sir Oswald formed the National Party, young Strachey became his left-hand man. But by 1935 the young men were so far apart that Lady Mosley cried: "He claims to be a friend of my son, but he has done everything he can, together with every other Communist, to break up my son's political meetings. He certainly is not my idea...
...haughty showman, he employed unusually thin strings, not only to produce extremely delicate harmonics (overtones two octaves higher than normal), but also, said some, so that he could break a string, use the remaining three as makeshift. To the fiddler's bag of tricks, Paganini contributed the left-hand pizzicato (plucked note), the double harmonic, the staccato in which the bow is bounced on the strings. He could fiddle a barnyard scene, once awakened an inn with a lifelike rendition of a baby crying...