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...morning last week in the gashouse district on Manhattan's lower East Side, a neat, grey-haired watchman named George Preston, 47, was caught setting fire to a rubbish heap under the stairs of a tenement house whose occupants lay sleeping. Watchman Preston, once a probationary fireman at Lynn, Mass., tearfully told police he took a few drinks every time he got a headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared up a series...
...Bowie, Md. racetrack Vice President John Nance Garner, Senators Nathan Lynn Bachtnan of Tennessee and Sherman Minton of Indiana bet $2 each on Minton, a rank outsider, won $24.90 apiece when Minton came in first...
...bill which provides for the Big Navy program during fiscal 1938 by allocating $130,000,000 to start work on eight new destroyers, four new submarines, to continue work on 81 other vessels of all types, and $27,000,000 for new airplanes. "May I ask," demanded opposing Senator Lynn J. Frazier, "what is considered a potential enemy? I do not believe the majority of our people approve this policy." Sent it to the President...
...went silver medals. Among agencies, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn won two firsts, one honorable mention, and B. B. D. & O.'s president, Roy S. Durstine, received first radio medal. Young & Rubicam scored one first, five honorable mentions and second radio medal. Newell-Emmett, Blackett-Sample, Hummert, and G. Lynn Sumner each won a first. N. W. Ayer had three honorable mentions. McCann-Erickson had two honorable mentions, Lennen & Mitchell, Fuller & Smith & Ross, Rickard & Co. and Geyer, Cornell & Newell, Inc. one each. W. J. Cameron of the Ford program won third radio medal...
...Austrians and is now seen ready to go out resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous as his, he has simply gone too far on the right track. Lynn Fontanne is flawless as the London gutter-snipe who, when her hair was red, slept with him in a hotel room in Omaha, and now that her hair is yellow, tells in fine Romanov inflections of her escape from Soviet Russia...