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After retiring, undefeated, from the Senate, Jim Reed went back to Kansas City and the law. A lover of courtroom jousts, he took all cases. Most celebrated: the famed Bridge Table Murder of 1929. A Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, after a bridge-table argument with her husband resulting from an overbid, shot him dead as he was standing in the bathroom. At the trial, Jim Reed, then 69, wept copiously. His client was acquitted...
...Most ardent chronicler of the Bennett case was the late Alexander Woollcott. Some years after the trial, he dug up a possibly apocryphal footnote. Mrs. Bennett was again playing bridge. This time her partner, a young man unacquainted with her past, overbid. As he laid down his hand, he casually murmured: "Partner, I'm afraid you'll want to shoot me for this." Commented Woollcott: "Mrs. Bennett had the good taste to faint...
...bounce in the rubber market came from the Japanese. In the smelly raw-rubber markets of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya, whence comes 87% of U. S. rubber, Japs have overbid U. S. importers for weeks. Dutch rubber exports to Japan for the first half of 1940 (12,278 tons) were around the largest in history, nearly double those of the first half...
...humble parents in Italy's fightingest province, Piedmont, his greatest talents are for organizing and understanding Italian peasants. Boccia, their game of bowls, is his favorite and at it he, big-handed and muscular, is a champion. He also excels at bridge, is said never to overbid. Among military men he rates high as an able, likable professional. France's Gamelin was his good friend, though they differed on war of position v. war of motion...
Most other big Nazis rant offensively, but not tiny, obese Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk, whom Germans call the "gentlest of all the Nazis." He returned quietly to Berlin last week from a tour of the Balkans on which he notably overbid the British and French in extending credits-i.e., economic bribes for political favors. And the day after he got back, Poland thankfully accepted a German credit of 60,000,000 marks and, according to reports, Greece was put down by the German Economics Ministry for a credit of 100,000,000 marks...