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Refuting a claim of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission that George Washington invented ice cream, Professor May Belle Van Arsdale of Columbia University asserted that Marco Polo brought home recipes for ice cream and water ices from Japan and China...
...former secretary of Cinemactress Clara Bow, for theft (TIME, Jan. 26). He is a son-in-law of New York's late Supreme Court Justice James T. Malone. The most spectacular feat of his eight years of public service was the conviction in 1926 of Albert Marco (Albori), big-scale proprietor of brothels and gambling places. Marco, who is in San Quentin prison, had a partner and consort in comely, blonde June Taylor, who continued as his field-manager. Last week it was hinted that Prosecutor Clark had some sort of understanding with the Taylor woman; that Crawford...
...dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago's Unione Siciliano. Gangster Marco was shot seven times, his head hacked with a meat cleaver. His wife Yvonne, once married to Crooner Harry Richman (onetime suitor...
...Stories Without Women" has the hall marks of adolescence strongly upon it. The fragility of phrase and the delicate tracing that is so large a part of "Messer Marco Polo" is not to be found here. In their place is only a rather obvious striving after effect. Where Byrne usually relies upon the grace of his style he now turns to situations for his strength. And the result is not impressive...
Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney of the Connecticut Naval Militia obtained a three-year leave of absence and prepared to sail for Syria, where he will join a scientific tractor-caravan expedition being organized by Vice President Georges Marie Haardt of Citroen Corp. to follow the route of Marco Polo across Syria, Irak, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, China. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney planned to go as far as Beirut. Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross of Connecticut who lately majored Tunney for his staff, expressed regret...