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...Washington last week, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy was busier than a terrier in a cow barn. Wherever there was news, there...
Then they pushed into the house, saw instantly that someone had set the fire. The unswept, cobwebbed rooms stank from a litter of oily rags; the inner walls of Adamic's barn, which did not burn, had also been doused with oil, apparently taken from the farmhouse fuel tank. A moment later, they found the owner of the sedan. Adamic was lying on his back on a couch in an upstairs bedroom. He was wearing dungarees and a windbreaker, with a pillow at his back, a .22 Mossberg rifle across his lap-and a bullet wound just above...
...inspection of the rifle, and of an ax used to break open containers of oil. Fingerprints on both were hopelessly smudged. If Adamic had committed suicide, why had he felt it necessary to go to the trouble of burning his house and garage and preparing to burn his barn? Why had he left no note? And how could he have shot himself, then returned the rifle to his lap? But if he had been murdered by someone who set the fires to destroy evidence, why hadn't he resisted while the rifle was held so close to his head...
Snake Eyes. In Rotan, Texas, after he had killed a rattlesnake behind the barn, Coe Hawkings went out in the dark and cut off the rattles for a souvenir, next morning noticed that the snake he had killed still had its rattles...
...farmer's daughter from Smithfield, N.C. (pop. 3,678). When Ava was two, her father lost his farm and became a tenant farmer. Ava loved to run about barefoot, and is still apt to appear at parties carrying her shoes. She climbed trees and smoked cigarettes behind the barn with the boys...