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...Press was startled and shocked last week when one Hyman Stark, 20, died at the hands of the Nassau County police, guardians of New York's most swank and civilized area. Arrested for beating and robbing a county detective's mother, Stark was put in the "goldfish bowl" (a bright bare room for inquisitions) at Mineola headquarters, given the third-degree for eight hours. An autopsy showed Stark died from a fractured larynx, complicated by a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was horribly marked. Explained the District Attorney: "Some overenthusiastic police officer broke that man's Adam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Goldfish Bowl | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...York alumni dinner to President Hibben. After the last of those many words of tribute to Dr. Hibben had been spoken, "Lamb" Heyniger, divested of his dinner coat, jumped upon a table in the middle of the huge ballroom and called for three stanzas of "Old Nassau." The first stanza went finely, but along in the middle of the second-at that place where there is always a bit of uncertainty as to whether our hearts are to be thrilled with all her power, or whether our breaths we are to draw-there was a perceptible diminution of volume. Glancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Lowell as a Baritone | 4/1/1932 | See Source »

...offered to buy Paramount's half-interest for $5,200,000. Paramount hastened to accept, bought back its 48,000 shares, had more than $1,000,000 left over. Bill Paley had his whole diamond, now grown to Ritzian proportions. He put it in his pocket, sailed for Nassau and a rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Jazz-Age Diamond | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Pirate Gold found under a wild plum tree on New Providence Island (Nassau) in the Bahamas proved to consist last week of five bars worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gold's Week | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...beginning of the fatal last chukker, the orange and black shirted Princetonians were leading 7 1-2 to 6. They were then deprived of the services of R. S. Waterhouse, the star Nassau number two man, who suffered a fractured jaw in the closing minutes of the third stanza when he was struck by a Harvard mallet in a close scrimmage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY POLOISTS BEAT PRINCETON TEAM | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

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