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...good omen was the finding in London, just before Sir Bernard left, of a pair of legs in a suitcase left at King's Cross Station which proved to be the legs of the Brighton torso. As he went to work Sir Bernard Spilsbury preserved the Sherlock Holmes tradition of keeping mum, but he had his Dr. Watson in Chief Detective Pelling. The sole clue seemed to be that both legs and torso were wrapped in the same sort of brown wrapping paper and on the paper around the torso appeared the letters...
Eugen went to St. Stephan's Cathedral and heard mass, then walked to the palace of the Teutonic Order, then to another church to pray. When he saw troops of little girls in starched white dresses with paper flowers in their hair, it seemed a good omen. It was the first Thursday after Whitsunday, Vienna's traditional day for confirmations. Said he: "I have returned as a private person and I am glad to be able to spend the eventide of my life in the Fatherland." The Government announced that his reception in Vienna was thoroughly unofficial...
...Immediate plans of the M. P. R. C.: a $2 to $100 per year membership drive to replenish the exhausted Payne Fund; a campaign to end "block booking." To observers familiar with the cinema industry, the M. P. R. C.'s objections to block booking seemed a bad omen. Block booking is the system whereby exhibitors rent pictures in job lots instead of singly. It gives producers an outlet for their unpopular pictures; it gives exhibitors an excuse for exhibiting morally bad pictures. All reform agencies in the cinema have objected to block booking; none has ever made...
...passage of the Critic will render any new attempt in this field increasingly difficult, since the past subscribers of that magazine would naturally be loath to risk their money on anew venture, and possible backing for another Fourth Publication could scarcely the expected to consider the precedent an suspicious omen for their hopes...
...more, fear of inflation for the first time seriously pressed down the price of U. S. bonds. Last week most important U. S. issues sold below par. People who had subscribed for new 4¼-3¼% bonds on Nov.1 at101½ found them selling at 99-an ill omen for future Government financing. With the new bonds selling at a discount conversions of 4th Liberties practically ceased, thereby threatening failure of the refunding operation...