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Cocaine Sandwiches. Next to the Duke of Manchester's acquittal, nothing so revealed the quality of British Justice, poetic and otherwise, last week as the windup of Bournemouth's famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
...days later near Bournemouth one William Mitchell, a herdsman, was walking by a lily pond near the late "Rats" house. He saw Mrs. Rattenbury advance slowly into the pond, a dagger in her right hand. "Hi, stop!" cried Herdsman Mitchell but the Sentimental Lyric Writer stabbed herself six times in the breast, finally pierced her heart and slipped with a gush of blood among the lilies...
...have its best interests at heart. His chief claim to fame lies in his own work-and I say this as one who has just written a short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush. . . . Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line. I could cite complaint, as your critic understands the term-or appears to understand it-in every fine poet since and including Shakespeare. Any adverse comment on existence might...
...song number called "Dancing In Central Park," in which a standard romantic lyric is tagged with the extraneous line: "Tomorrow is the fear in my heart...
...James W. Blake, 72, author in 1894 of the words of Al Smith's latterday campaign song, ''The Sidewalks of New York"; of cancer; in Manhattan. Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through the offices...