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Last year George Remus, squat and muscular, got out of Atlanta Penitentiary after serving a short term for 'legging. He had made millions, had been caught, had got out. He suspected one Franklin L. Dodge Jr., a onetime U. S. Prohibition agent, of conspiring with Imogene Remus, his wife, to get his money and his life. Mrs. Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus said. So, the morning Mrs. Remus started for court to press her divorce suit, George Remus drove alongside her car in a Cincinnati park, chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed...
...smart set of Des Moines (pop. 148,900), biggest city in Iowa, often amuse themselves with a parlor game: a modern variation of famed tiddledywinks. An ashtray is placed on the floor. The players (any number from two to eight), equipped with dimes and quarters, squat. In turn, they use their quarters to try to flick their dimes into the ashtray in a graceful arc. It is a game requiring firm thumbs, keen eyes. It was invented by that skillful player, John Cowles, 29, who is to Des Moines what a dynamo is to a powerhouse...
...spectators. The most important prospective bidders were four: B. D. Maggs, representing Maggs Brothers of London; W. Roberts, London bibliophile, representing Gabriel Wells, Manhattan book dealer; E. H. Bring, president of Quaritch's, London dealers in rarities, reputed to be representing the British Museum; and a squat man with a pince nez, Dr. Abraham Wolf Rosenbach, one of the members of the famed Rosenbach Co., Philadelphia dealers in rare books...
Observers recalled that the great Soviet organizer, Michael Borodin, a leading instigator of the China Nationalist Revolution (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926) is now periodically reported to be active in Mongolia. Once he and his squat, Buddha-like wife kept a cheap secretarial school in Chicago...
...Monte Carlo, the whole was almost reclaimed last week in Manhattan by the altogether pleasant production at the Metropolitan-by the gay, graceful Magda of Lucrezia Bori, by the caricatured poet of Armand Tokatyan, the brilliant Second Empire settings of Joseph Urban. Only Beniamino Gigli stayed out of picture. Squat and pompous he sang beautifully as the love-soaked Ruggiero...