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...Collector Duggan "play ball" with the American? He would. A rendezvous with Sherwood and his lawyers was arranged in a Hoboken saloon, where Sherwood was safe from a New York contempt-of-court citation (and $50,000 fine). Next morning the American burst out with the neatest, most spectacular scoop that Manhattan had seen in a long time...
Eight months ago while the Hitlerites scrabbled for power, their chief news- paper, Der Angriff, published a juicy scoop: Lieut. Col. Theodore Düsterberg, Imperial General Staff veteran, drillmaster and second-in-command of the Stahlhelm, veterans' organization, had a Jewish grandfather (TIME, Sept. 19). It was expected that this news alone would be sufficient to force Col. Düsterberg's resignation. Not so; the Stahlhelm rallied round their leader with a proud announcement from their Berlin commander. Major Franz von Stephani: "The Stahlhelm does not judge men by their ancestors but by their deeds...
...which Dr. Cutler prefers is a "modified Carnoy's solution": absolute alcohol 6 c. c., chloroform 3 c. c., glacial acetic acid i c.c., ferric chloride 1 gm. The solution practically "tans" tissues it comes in contact with. Dr. Cutler uses it to toughen cysts which he must scoop out of brains...
...Photographer Eckenberg get his scoop? The Times said he simply got there first from Columbus Circle. But every other cameraman on the job told his editor another story: that lucky Eckenberg was late on his way to the Circle, was passing the store just as the shooting occurred...
Determined to scoop the execution...