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United Press's Mary Knight dressed herself as a man, boasted afterward that she was the only woman to see Dr. Gorgulov lose his head. She told how Gorgulov, his hands and feet heavily manacled, hobbled forward; how the back of the prisoner's neck was shaved "to better expose his flesh to the sharp knife of 'the widow' [guillotine]." Then ''like a flash the neck piece clamped Gorgulov into position and, before he could gasp, the knife, well weighted, fell nine feet. . . . There was no autopsy...
...fruitful of few essential facts. At the home of her mother and stepfather (a Chicago hotelman named Marino Bello whom sleek Mrs. Carpenter had married after a divorce from her first husband), Jean Harlow told detectives that she and Bern had dinner at home the night he shot himself. Afterward she had gone to spend the night at her mother's house because her stepfather was going fishing and her mother wanted company. Bern was expected to follow, but instead he telephoned to say that his headache was worse and he pre ferred to stay home. For several days...
...Pollak, back-of-the-stockyards bootlegger and money lender. She suspected him of philandering with a Mrs. Julia Cebulski. One afternoon last July Mrs. Pollak was unable to locate either her husband or Mrs. Cebulski. When her husband returned to the flat that evening she shot him. Said she afterward: "That was a dirty trick I did to poor...
...enough for him. It was fun to be cantankerous and crotchety, teaching Harvard men to write good prose, scaring them when they were late or noisy. The scaring sometimes stuck, too. Shambling Heywood Broun once went. up to Cambridge to report a game. He planned to leave directly afterward to get his copy back to New York. He wished to visit "Copey" so he went to Hollis 15 in the morning. His old Professor waved him out querulously: "Go away, Heywood. Come back at 5:30 this afternoon." Said meek Reporter Broun, "Yes, sir," and lumbered downstairs reflecting glumly that...
...flight. Next day he had the barograph but a quartering wind slowed him to 282 m.p,h.?.77 less than the necessary margin over the old record. On that day spectators feared he was about to crash into treetops at the north end of the field. Scoffed Doolittle afterward: "I was nowhere near them. I must have been at least four feet over them." Once again he rocketed back & forth, this time endangered by splashing oil which smeared his windhood. His fastest lap was 309 m.p.h. Said he: "I left five miles more in her for 'Russ' Boardman...