Superstition, a column and a watchmaker's tale in Greenwich Village
The narrator muses on luck and superstition after betting seven dollars on the seventh horse at Hialeah. He consults Greenwich Village watchmaker John Kieran about Tom Wolfe, describing Wolfe as six six, slight of head, a voracious reader who wrote up to ten thousand words daily and died at thirty seven.
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Look Homeward Angel author Tom Wolfe Book Notes
The watchmaker recalls Tom Wolfe's career and posthumous works K-19 and Of Time and the River. He mentions Wolfe's publisher, the author’s final letter, and editor Arwell aiding the family during Wolfe's death in 1938 and at the funeral in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Station Tops Investment Quote
Station tops Tascment Quote expenditures for housing average about one fifth of state U. S. capital expenditures.
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Saved From Chair 10 Times Negro Is Given Life Term
Montgomery Alabama AP report says Gov. James Folsom commuted Lawrence Nathaniel Phillips 22 from death to life imprisonment eight hours before scheduled execution at Kilby Prison. Phillips, convicted of the 1940 murder of Henry Lowe in Gadsden, Alabama, had 10 prior stays. his attorneys argued he was impaired and could not tell right from wrong.
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Mother Of 6 Held On Murder Charge
In Rockville Centre New York a 44 year old mother of six Anne Duke was jailed on a murder charge in the drowning death of her 13 month old son Kenneth. Investigators say she was found unconscious beside a bathtub with the child’s body nearby and wrists and ankles crushed. A nine year old daughter Mary Ann discovered the scene and escaped through a second story window.
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May Draft Women In Next Big War
American women may be drafted in any future global war, Maj. Gev John W. Devine said at Fort Benning. He noted the peacetime draft of women depends on international events and scientific development, with two possible paths discussed during a one day tour.
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Dorothey Dix Answers on Marriage and Invitations
A reader seeking reconciliation after divorce asks how to reunite with her husband. Dorothy Dix notes flirtations and misjudgments are common, advises the wife to write and seek a second chance, while a second letter discusses marital infidelity and the pragmatic choice of stability over romance. An engagement-sized golf finals update follows at Palm Beach with the 7th annual invitational mixed foursomes.
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