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...developed, one of Murder, Inc.'s "soldiers" named Albert ("Tick-Tock") Tannenbaum told Edward Heffernan. an assistant D.A., about meeting a fellow hoodlum, Emanuel ("Mendy") Weiss, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Tannenbaum noticed scratches on Weiss's hands and asked him how he had come by them. Weiss's story as told by Tannenbaum...
Although appealing in its simplicity to the military mind, this hardly disposes of the case. Those thinkers concerned with the evolution of the species cannot fail to take notice of Mr. Husband and his cephalic tick-tock. Heretofore mankind has feared that the machines it created would someday engulf it. Hardly reckoned upon has been the spectre of human devolution into protoplasmic mechanisms. Today, the public turns apprehensively to these tight-lipped toilers in Social Relations Laboratories the country over for polysyllabic reassurance. It is to be hoped that the experts will not stand mute to the challenge...
...jubilant Elsie Dick, reporting a flood of 1,152 letters in response to the first program, went busily ahead with plans for this week's lesson on the atom- a mystery show entitled The Case of the Tick-Tock Murder, starring Cinemactor Turhan...
Solid Reality. Joseph Arthur Rank is a burly grandfather's-clock of a man, at 59 tick-tock solemn and sure, and rather bumblingly humorous when wound up. He stands 6 ft. 1 in. with his limp brown hair stuck down flat, and bulks a solid 15 stone (210 lbs.). He resembles General de Gaulle, except that he does not share the look of a supercilious camel. His great tired nose droops even lower than De Gaulle's. It curls under just in time to disclose an uncertain mustachelet which changes position with each shave...
Last week, as the Vanderbilt tournament progressed in tick-tock silence, it began to look as if Mrs. Sobel's sharp red nails would scoop in the most important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...