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...shall die!" (Isaiah 22: 10-13.) Miss Schaub took her $10,000 cash and bought two motor cars. She amused herself at mountain resorts and hotels. She wrote a book, Gambling With Radium, and when her publishers advised her to improve its literary style, she enrolled as a correspondence pupil at Columbia University...
Schubert's Concerto in A Minor by 'Cellist Caspar Cassado and Symphony Orchestra under Sir Hamilton Harty (Columbia, $6)-A compatriot and pupil of Famed Pablo Casals contributes an excellent arrangement of a sonata written for piano and arpeggione (string instrument between a viola and a 'cello in size; invented in Vienna in Schubert's day' seldom played...
...porter did not retreat. On tiptoe he approached Dr. Wollaston's door, listened, heard not a sound, then took heart to peek round the jamb at a dreadful scene. Shot through the heart, the tutor lay crumpled in a chair. Shot through the head, Pupil Potts sprawled dying on the carpet, a pistol near his right hand...
Mystery. A whole day passed with the authorities completely baffled. They did not know even the reason why Tutor, Detective and Pupil had assembled in one room. Dean Eric Milner-White of King's College repeated bleatingly to one newspaperman after another...
Miss Miller said that she had given Pupil Potts "refuge from the police" at her London flat for several days. He told her of obtaining from Cambridge shops $3,000 worth of haberdashery on credit which he pawned "for money to live like a gentleman." When she last saw him, said Madge Miller, "poor Mr. Potts was on his way to make a clean breast of everything at Cambridge," and she understood that he intended to commit suicide...