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Sirs: TIME, May 19, p. 34, heading "Artists." Do Yale's Arthur Hiler Ruggles and Hamburg's Wilhelm Weygandt know of Louise Rice, New York graphologist, and her collection and studies of scribbles? Nationally and internationally known people, big business organizations, detectives, lawyers, unhappy couples, misfits, underworld characters-all take odd drawings and bits of scratchings to her. She's done farming, showboating on the Mississippi, reporting in the Bowery and Chinatown 35 years ago before modern artificial atmosphere, worked behind "Five and Ten" counters-now writes and graphologizes. You scribble. It's unconscious. Rounded lines...
...other cities word was flashed to be on the lookout for underworld arrivals. But the week ran out with no progress reported, the killer still at large. From the very nature of Reporter Lingle's work, his wide knowledge of underworld activities, it was difficult to guess who might have avenged a grudge by a gunshot. Lingle had a room in the Hotel Stevens where he lived regularly. Occasionally he spent a night with his family in the suburbs. To the hotel room had gone many and many a caller in recent weeks-impossible to single out one character...
...Americanized restaurant at No. 1 Pell Street (nucleus of Manhattan's Chinatown) observed, noted, took part in tong warfare, wrote an inside story of it. Along came Reporter Bruce Grant, who read the story, realized that it was an expose exciting and spectacular enough to appeal to underworld-minded readers, was the first authentic history of the tongs ever written, was a splendid scoop. He wrote Author Gong's manuscript into reportorial text. All Reporter Grant needed was a rewrite...
...Keith's--"Born Reckless". Edmund Loew rants through the underworld...
Central Square -- "Those Who Dance", the conventional underworld picture, and "Under a Texas Moon...