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...first action was taken last fall when the Planning Board made a sketch of a 100 feet stagle apan bridge, 40 feet wide, In February, along with all the other numerous PWA projects, was one to build this bridge, but the Legislature turned it down...
...gangster grue ran through 100 pages of Prison Life Stories. Director Sanford Bates of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons contributed an earnest description of "Our Island Fortress, Alcatraz." Two pages later came a lurid account of "Ohio's 'Bathtub Crime,' " complete with a provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was the life story of Los Angeles' Thomas M. White, the "Rattlesnake Bandit." John J. Bennett, "New York State...
Thereupon wise, 50-year-old Pastor Hay, husky, six-foot father of three, proceeded to sketch his idea of what such a book should say. Excerpts...
Earl Carroll's Sketch Book, with no more Broadway openings promised until August, officially rings out the 1934-35 theatre season with lots of fuss, little fun. This year's Carrolling is supposed to represent in 50 scenes a U. S. chorine's idea of her nation's past. The doll-voices of a bevy of "the most beautiful girls in the world" inaugurate this motif by squealing in unison...
...sketch in which a Jeeter Lesterish farmer suffers an AAA "professor" to destroy his wheat and cotton but shoots the professor when the latter wants to kill his mule...