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...Francisco last week, reporters found famed Helen Wills Moody on a station platform with a trunk full of tennis rackets, bound for Wimbledon where the All-England championships start June 24. Retired since her default to her ablest rival, Helen Jacobs, in the National Championships at Forest Hills in 1933, she explained that she had been practicing this spring, gradually convinced herself that her game was as good as ever. Said she, about her trip to Wimbledon: "I just made up my mind to go this afternoon...
Nordica's funeral was in King's Weigh House Chapel in London where she and George Young were married. Her casket was a teakwood trunk, carved to represent a lotus, the flower that she loved best. On his return to Manhattan, George Young walked down the gangplank bearing a box under either arm. One contained Lillian Nordica's jewels, the other her ashes...
...mettle nowadays is the Home Office's great criminal pathologist. Thrice in a twelvemonth Sir Bernard has failed to solve spectacular murder cases: The Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1; the Brighton Trunk Crime No. 2; and the Case of the Waterloo Legs-limbs which, as Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Daily Express never tires of repeating, were found under the seat of a Waterloo railway train wrapped in a copy of the Daily Express...
...Majesty's Government's real-life Sherlock Holmes, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, just sensationally foiled in Brighton Trunk Murders No. 1 and No. 2 (TIME, March 4), last week had on his laboratory table two human legs, neatly cut off below the kneecap. They were found last week under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station...
...Bernard thought, had been lifeless only twelve hours. When railway attendants reported that three lackadaisical young men had loitered around the car in which the legs were found before the train left a suburban station, Scotland Yard announced that they are being "sought for questioning." As in Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1, when found, the Waterloo legs were wrapped in newspapers which had absorbed most of the blood, then encased in brown paper...