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...since . . . the day of the murder than for a long time. . . . Now, of course, I realize we bungled dreadfully, although at the time I thought we were being careful." Seaman Albert O. Jones, U. S. N., held as accomplice of Lieut. Massie, proudly exhibited to Reporter Owen a fat scrapbook of news clippings about the case, pointed to a statement of his own that he was too drunk the day of the murder to remember what occurred...
Blonde Crazy (Warner) shows a few of the tricks whereby an enterprising bellhop, equipped with light lingers and curly hair, can live handsomely on his wits. The bellhop (James Cagney) is so much interested in dishonesty that he keeps a scrapbook of variations of the badger game, methods of stealing diamond bracelets, false money transactions and likely methods of beating persons who think they can beat the races. By the practice of these wiles, he manages to keep luxurious quarters in the best hotels, preying mostly upon persons no more honest but less versatile than himself...
Year ago Poet Robert Graves of England said Goodbye To All That in one of the most successful autobiographies of the year. Now he returns to the subject, his title apologetically murmuring But It Still Goes On. Not really a sequel but a kind of scrapbook, it contains some scraps worth picking...
...born in Fayetteville, Tenn., started work as a telegraph operator in a Tennessee brokerage house. Later he moved to Manhattan, rose to be manager of the wire department of Laidlaw & Co. One of his duties was to answer questions concerning companies, and for this purpose he kept a scrapbook. In 1906 he thought of having pertinent facts on 100 leading corporations printed on cards which could be revised from time to time. He persuaded a printer to take a chance, used a bellboy at his hotel to distribute the cards. A. M. Kidder & Co. was the first firm to take...
...them, if King Haakon with excessive modesty is still self-conscious in Norway after reigning securely for a quarter-century, if Queen Maud goes about her shopping in Oslo completely unattended and sometimes unrecognized, this strange royal conduct seems to be exactly what Norwegians like. A quaint, possibly significant scrapbook is kept by Their Majesties. She pastes into the section headed We Never Did or Said This newsclippings of that sort. The rest of the scrapbook, much the larger section, bears mute but gracious royal witness to the high average accuracy of newsfolk...