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...President Sophie Tucker, stout trouper who is widely regarded as a lovable prop executive, held an A. F. A. meeting to get a vote of confidence. Miss Tucker wept, a blonde bit another actor, there was a free-for-all and no vote of confidence. Last week as the A. F. A. trial opened, Miss Tucker, other executives and A. F. A. lawyers walked out on it, charging that it was packed and illegal...
Last week Tom Pendergast's Police Director Otto Higgins resigned, wept at having to leave "the best police department in the country." While Kansas City wondered whether Tom Pendergast's machine was cracking up, Mayor Smith & Co. made a great to-do about closing gambling dens, putting clothes on dancers...
...Peace.' ... [I] quoted what was said . . . BEFORE the election of the new Pontiff. The reflection was not on the new Pope, beloved by all, but on the Catholic churches of Rochester in general, and upon St. Margaret Mary's in particular, who bingoed while the world wept...
...warned that resistance would be fatal, dazed by surprise, their spirit broken since Munich anyhow, crowds greeted the first armored cars in Prague's streets in dumb despair. Later in the day they grew defiant. Whistles and jeers greeted each new squadron. Groups sang the Czech anthem and wept openly. Some shouted "Pfui! Pfui! go back home!" But the only physical resistance Herr Hitler's tanks met was a volley of snowballs. Down in Prague's Jewish district there was terror. Two lovers shot themselves, a couple jumped from their apartment window. By week...
...dogs' owner had rented the house under the name of "Everall." Arrested, she and her husband now called themselves "Mr. & Mrs. David Brown." "I did the best I could," wept Mrs. Brown. ". . . We fed them every week or so." Their lawyer said later they were really David and Eleanor Goldshur: he a philosophy instructor at San Francisco Junior College, she a student of psychology. Mr. Goldshur disclaimed any knowledge of the dogs' plight; Mrs. Goldshur explained that she was interested in "animal mass behaviorism.'' Officer Girolo said that dogs have to be "damned hungry" before they...