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Motoring down to his presidential office in Atlanta's First National Bank (largest in the Southeast), John King Ottley, 65, saw a fruit peddler to whom he had often given a lift to town. This time the peddler flourished a pistol, took the banker for a ride to the country, left him in charge of a 17-year-old boy armed with a blackjack. It took Banker Ottley only a few minutes to persuade the boy to release him, accompany him to nearby Suwanee, lead a posse to the fruit peddler's hideout...
...German Government embargoed Britain's revered and mighty Manchester Guardian. Its crime: printing specific cases of the beating of Jews, Socialists, women, the most detailed of which came from the Guardian's special correspondent in Frankfort. The last case so reported was that of a street peddler sentenced to a year's imprisonment because he was overheard to say that Jews were mistreated. The Guardian wrote last week...
...tune is his undoing. When he goes again to buy a funny balloon, the peddler who sells it to him recognizes his whistle, signals a confrère. The confrère bumps into the villain, slaps on his back a chalk M to identify him. The thieves and beggars follow him, corner him in the storeroom of an office building. They take him off to face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery. His psychopathic defense-"You are criminals because you want to be! I am one because I cannot help it!"-is about to fail...
Therese Neumann was born in 1898. eldest of the ten children of Ferdinand Neumann, a poor peddler and tailor of Konnersreuth in northern Bavaria. Never over-zealous in the practice of her faith, she was blinded and paralyzed in 1918. after helping extinguish a fire in the house where she was employed. On May 17. 1925, the canonization day of St. Therese of Lisieux (''Little Flower"), Fraulein Neumann regained her sight. Eight days later she called for the priest of Konnersreuth. When he arrived she arose and walked. Later in the year she was taken ill with what...
...Chicago, huge Primo Camera stalked warily about the ring, actually retreating from but trying to make it look as Krakow though he were ("Kingfish" advancing Levinsky), against 197-lb. Harry fish-peddler, who looked like a pigmy in the ring with his 6-ft. yin. 270-lb. opponent. In the first round, an upward right-hand sweep from Kingfish Levinsky landed on the side of the pendulous Camera jaw, caused the monstrous Camera knees to buckle. Thereafter, wary and furious by turns, using all his weight, reach and slight knowledge of tactics, Carnera managed to maul, push, lambaste Levinsky enough...