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When cocky Locksmith Charles Courtney of Manhattan, founder-president of the American Association of Master Locksmiths, sailed last month for Europe, he said he was off to pick a lock, where or for whom he did not know. Observers guessed it might be a rusted lock on a treasure chest hauled from the sunken Egypt by the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (TIME, June 20). Never having met the lock that could resist him, Master Courtney, who first learned his trade at the door of his mother's jam closet, expected no trouble. Last week, back in Manhattan...
...cockiest picklock in the U. S. last week signed a Europe-bound steamship's register: Charles Courtney, New York. N. Y., master locksmith, founder-president of the American Association of Master Locksmiths. His errand was to pick open some treasure chests plucked from Davy Jones's lockerby whom he would not say, from where he could not say. His cautious employers had merely supplied him expense money and instructions to have his passport visaed for England, France and Germany. When his ship neared Europe he would receive wireless orders for debarkation. The chests he was to open might...
After youthful wanderings his odyssey started at Irkutsk where he was employed as a locksmith on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A chance meeting with two political prisoners who had escaped across northern Siberia made up Author Welzl's mind. That spring he bought a horse and cart, made tracks for the Arctic Ocean alone. Too uneducated to follow maps he followed his nose, and the rivers flowing north...
First Lady Nadya is the younger daughter of one Sergei Alliluiev, a locksmith. As a little girl she looked up to Josef Stalin, a strong, violent, darkly brooding visitor who not only broke locks but held up banks and dynamited safes to secure money for Comrade Lenin and the Communist Party. Romantic, this desperate character had, however, a wife and a son only six years younger than the locksmith's daughter...
Dazzled, the locksmith's younger daughter, then just 17, fell promptly in love with the fortyish Strong Man whom she had admired as a child, married him proudly...