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...TIME wishes to abide by its slogan, "Curt, Clear, Complete" it will refrain from publishing second-hand information of superficial nature culled from unreliable sources...
...case of a tobacco company cashier who was bonded for $10,000, stole $147,000. Then there was the case of the branch manager of a sewing machine company who indulged in padding his payroll, retaining cash collections, forging endorsements on checks, appropriating money received on sale of second-hand machines and keeping the proceeds of checks drawn on his company. He combined these misdemeanors for 50 months before being caught...
Albert D. ("Dolly") Stark was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, son of a second-hand clothes dealer who never had enough spare stock to supply his son with a coat to match his trousers. Small Stark envied the boy who lived across the street, whose name was Walter Winchell, and who owned a Buster Brown suit of blue serge. When he grew up Dolly Stark became a professional baseball player. He gave it up in 1921, went to Dartmouth as basketball coach three years later, kept up his interest in baseball by umpiring summers...
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...sufficient reasons for their act," he refused the Press everything but a cheery "No comment." At week's end he declared: "I probably would say something if Colonel Lindbergh personally attributed to me the reason for his leaving the U. S. I won't reply to second-hand passers of information." But by that time the pack were too busy snapping & snarling at each other to pay heed...