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Superintendent Becker: Well, it happened some time ago. The thief [an assay office employe] was a damn fool. He had hidden the gold under his sweater while at work. At the end of the day he walked out and sold it to a dealer who melted it and then had the nerve to try to sell it back...
...other foreign states, but Russians call him to his face familiarly and affectionately "Michail Son-of-Ivan." One day last week U. S. correspondents in Moscow were ushered in to the first interview ever given by the Grandpa President. They found him in a blue serge suit, old brown sweater and clean white shirt perched on the desk of Commissioner of Communications Alexei Rykov. "Well, well," chuckled Grandpa Kalinin accepting and lighting a U. S. cigaret, "I have never been so close to so many American newspapermen before...
...tense days the family waited while police hunted. One night last week the kidnappers again telephoned the Hart home. Police intercepted the call, traced it to a garage near San Jose City Hall. At the garage they found a husky man in a faded blue sweater still talking in the telephone booth. They dragged him out. He said his name was Thurmond. At a nearby hotel they caught his accomplice, one John Holmes, unemployed oil worker...
TIME, FORWARD!-Valentine Kataev- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). ''And it is not for nothing that Gorky constantly repeats. Write the history of factories and plants. . . ., The football sweater of the shock-brigader, the kerchief md ribbons of a young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre...
...lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create an atmosphere that the sailor cap, sweater, and black tie somehow fail to achieve...