Word: alibis
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...Russians, almost to a man, could see no arguments whatever against a second front. They were fighting a war in one country-their invaded own. There might be war in Britain, North Africa, China, the Pacific -to Russians deep in their awful present, the global war was an unreal alibi for inaction in Western Europe...
...year, in a non-broadcast contest, the Kids roundly trounced five University of Chicago professors. Score: 140-to-275, in favor of the Kids. Smarting from this rout, the professors boned up for a year, recently challenged the Kids again. Score: professors, 110; Kids, 105. The Quiz Kids' alibi: they had stayed up the night before to watch the eclipse of the moon...
...PHANTOM LADY- William Irish-Lippincott ($2). While a convicted murderer watches the minutes tick away in the death house, his best friend, sweetheart, and a detective conduct a death-studded search for a shadowy lady who holds the life-saving alibi. An exciting chase with a stunning climax...
...every contractor has been so anxious to be well-heeled with materials (and so sure of being shortchanged) that he has been inclined to ask for more than he needed at any one moment. There is no reason to believe Purp can stop this overestimating, since contractors can always alibi later that it was impossible to forecast accurately five months ahead and anyhow they were expecting a contract they...
Theory A. To alibi his murders, Leonski talked to tentmates of his split personality. When he had a few drinks he even walked wolflike on his hands and knees to build up his own theory that there was another Eddie Leonski, a being apart, who was responsible for the horrors he committed. This theory the medical board quickly exploded. Leonski was not a schizophrenic...