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...Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking for a woman and a "stoop-shouldered man" who might have been accomplices...
...their gallery of women there is Alice, the professional criminal, whose paternal ancestors were drunkards and thieves, whose maternal ancestors were oversexed. Alice, beautiful redhead, began to lie and steal almost from babyhood. At 18 she was a shoplifter of considerable note. A reformatory sentence did Alice no good. At 35 she is "a crafty, thoroughly experienced criminal...
Although the first real test of the year is scheduled for this afternoon when the Jayvees will be brought into the Varsity field for an inter-squad drill, the coaches decided to steal a march on their subjects and ordered a brief scrimmage session. Each of the teams took charge of the ball for six plays but the period of play was so brief that no one had an opportunity to break away for long gains...
...First National) shows a pair of international agents up to their customary tricks, of spying on each other while they fall in love. Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard) goes to Moscow to prevent Russia from signing a separate peace with Germany. Elena (Kay Francis) is Lenin's secretary, detailed to steal from Stephen the papers that will justify his execution. That no execution occurs will surprise few cinemaddicts...
Musically the first part of the 19th Century was an age of virtuosity. Berlioz, writing for the orchestra, mysteriously made instruments sound as they had never sounded before. And not even Rubinstein ever played the piano like Franz Liszt. When Chopin heard Liszt he wrote: "I wish I could steal from him the way to play my own etudes...