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...doctors forbade that on the ground that the shock might kill her. Helen Love's brother helpfully recalled that soft, classical music had once brought her out of a similar fit. But none was available in the Los Angeles jail. Then a dapper psychiatrist named Dr. Samuel Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry [the dead man], don't." But Mrs. Love did not wake up and doctors continued to nourish her through a vein with...
...fact that Mrs. Love's case was now in the hands of a medical commission, in the seventh day of her self-induced stupor four newsreel cameras were set up in the jail hospital and one of the original psychiatrists had another try at awakening the prisoner. Psychiatrist Marcus stroked her forehead, tickled her mastoids, then murmured into her ear: "I'm coming in. Here I come. I'm knocking. Here I come." He turned to the cameramen. "She will awaken in less than a minute. . . . She is awake! Come, come, Helen! Speak up! Do you recognize...
...many years the statuette has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a loan from Grenville L. Winthrop. Now it has generously been given by him to the Fogg where it will join his other bronze, the imaginary portrait bust of the young Marcus Aurelius...
...nothing in the State statutes prohibiting pawnbrokers and personal property brokers from charging any rate of interest they please." Big fiction feature of The Pawnbrokers' Journal was "A Fair Exchange" by Harry Irving Shumway. This story opens with Pawnbroker Moe Epstein appraising a diamond for his friend Marcus. Says Moe: "A full quarter of a carat but the dirtiest diamond I ever see. Nine dollars is the very positive limit." Marcus offers to trade the diamond for a tray of fountain pens, then balks because the pens appear to be ''too yellow." Moe says, "So are canary...
Knowing nothing at all about moving picture cameras, still I accept your offer." Surprise ending of "A Fair Exchange" is that after a hard day's finagling, Marcus' final trade brings him a pawn ticket which proves to be for the very same stone he started out with...