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...best place for a reporter to have covered the Stoll kidnapping would have been the press room of the Department of Justice, 600 mi. from the scene of the crime. Even information from one field man to another is cleared through the central Washington office. The moment Mrs. Stoll was released, the complete, authoritative story on the kidnapping went out from Washington. Attorney General Cummings took on last August as his special assistant one of the ablest and most reliable of Washington correspondents, Henry Suydam, long with the Brooklyn Eagle...
...stolid husband for the night of March 1, 1932. She was not very successful. More promising was the testimony of a construction boss on a Manhattan apartment building who said Hauptmann was working for him until 5 p. m. on the fatal day. The crime took place 60 mi. away at Hopewell, N. J. not later than 8:30 p. m. But when other evidence tended to show that Hauptmann did not start work there until March 21, the court refused to stay the extradition longer and four carloads of New Jersey troopers swept Bruno Hauptmann over the Hudson...
Last week, 18 years after Floyd Odlum arrived in Manhattan, so green that he tried to walk from Grand Central Station to Wall Street (3½ mi.), Mrs. Odlum was 42, mother of two sons, sprightly wife of the head of the biggest investment trust in the U. S. but still a Westerner in speech and manner. And her husband gave her a present. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum was duly elected president of Bonwit Teller, big Manhattan smartshop...
...bought a farm in northwest Kenya near Eldoret, a town of some 700 Dutch-speaking Boers who trekked once more into the hinterland when Britain conquered the Transvaal. Eldoret has one of the British Empire's highest railway stations (7,000 ft.), just north of the Equator. Only 100 mi. to the southwest is vast Lake Victoria. The climate is bracing but wet. The blacks outnumber the whites more than...
Because it is a 32-mi. over-water jump, because the prevailing weather is bad, the London-Paris air route is unquestionably one of the world's most hazardous. That it is also one of the oldest and busiest, none can deny. Last week's accident was the first in four years for Hillman's Airways, which maintains the fastest daily air service between London and Paris. Imperial Airways, operating eleven planes across the Channel daily, boasts a personal accident insurance rate no higher than that for rail travel. For U. S. airlines the rate is eight...