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...from a Bronx lumber yard where Haupt mann once worked and from which he subsequently bought supplies, and the nails in it were similar to nails in the garage which Hauptmann built himself. 7) Messrs. Condon, Lindbergh and Per rone can in one way or another identify Hauptmann with the crime. 8) The crime was a one-man job be cause the ladder was left behind. 9) Government auditors will try to account for Hauptmann's spending most of the $50.000 ransom. 10) Hauptmann's criminal record in Germany marks him as the type of man to execute...
...From the start police have insisted that the crime was not a one-man job, that as many as five might have participated...
...Matisse and Picasso; because he has been called a master of impressionistic line; because the people whom Hostess Elsa Maxwell invites to her parties have decided that he is "too, too divine,'' the chaste grey walls of the Valentine Gallery were last week given over to a one-man show of the later drawings of James Grover Thurber. Gallerygoers, stepping sideways like crabs, passed from frame to frame in which were exposed the backs of old letterheads and odd sheets of scratch paper on which were scrawled the amiable bloodhounds, the horrid boneless women, the bald, browbeaten little...
Luis Quintanilla, 39, muralist, etcher, humanist and Spanish Republican, held his first one-man show in the U. S. last week. Pierre Matisse was his sponsor, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos his patrons and apologists. On the sober walls of the Matisse Gallery 39 of Quintanilla's etchings were lined up, all handsomely mounted and glassed. Critics, collectors, and ladies in long mink coats all hurried up to see them. But Luis Quintanilla was not excited. In Madrid behind the bars of the Central Prison he was fighting for his life...
...potent carriers how to route their trains and for the first time the railroads were openly challenging his authority to dictate on ordinary traffic matters. The immediate stake was $1.000,000 per year in passenger revenue between Chicago and points South. The larger issue was the whole principle of one-man control over the railroad...