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...case of sensualism . . ." Considering the source, it was a crushing rebuke, for on March 31, 1939, when an undergraduate himself, Gordon Southworth had made his contribution to the craze of the year by swallowing 67 live goldfish at one sitting-and had eaten a peanut butter sandwich afterward...
...Soon afterward, Madeleine returned to Léon's bed & board. Then again she left. After a year of such indecisive shuttling, she left permanently. Léon brooded alone for four days. Then he loaded up his old army revolver and went to stand vigil outside the beauty shop where Madeleine worked. When she emerged, Léon fired...
...bullet whizzed through her handbag. Léon ran home, downed some sleeping pills, turned on the gas jets in the kitchen, aimed the pistol at his own head and pulled the trigger. Superficially wounded, he woke up in the hospital soon afterward to find himself charged with attempted murder. "But," he stammered, "she tried to murder me too!" "Eh, bien," the gendarmes sighed and went out after Madeleine...
...that if Lenin's body became completely decomposed the Russian people might take it as a bad omen: "If we find it is impossible to preserve the body, we'll have to replace it by an artificial figure. It must be perfectly done." Says Svanidze: "I learned afterward that the body of Lenin had been replaced by a substitute made at Kazan," and the decomposing body secretly cremated. The body that hundreds of the faithful now patiently queue to see, says Author Svanidze, is a fake...
...years had the profits of U.S. industry, hard hit by taxes, rising costs and fewer sales, made as poor a showing as in 1952's first quarter. Before taxes, they were the highest (estimated: $42.5 billion) of any year except 1951's alltime record; afterward, they were the lowest of any year since 1946's marginal, reconversion-battered first quarter. Some of the typical casualties: General Motors' net off 10%, U.S. Steel's 10%, Du Font's 15%, Union Carbide & Carbon's 20%, U.S. Rubber's 30%, topped by Libbey-Owens-Ford...