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Five little white girls between four and eight years old disappeared from Cuban farms near Havana last week. They had no possible interest in upholding or opposing the Machado government. Havana police sprang to action. In a deserted barn near Caimito, 22 mi. from the capital, the children's dismembered bodies were found. In that barn the police also found a crude altar of stones and seashells, a hideous statue of the Goddess Chango, and 28 half-crazed Negroes, two of them with bloody robes and blunt stone axes. The most intelligible of the prisoners, one Jose Delgado, described...
...diabolical villains arising from the Victorian period that produced "Frankensten" and "The Murder in the Red Barn", few had more homely appeal than the demon barber of Fleet Street. His remarkable mechanical chair disposed of its occupants as decisively as Sing Sing's "hot squat". Such is the atmosphere of the Delta Upsilon's present revival...
...Lady Next Door. Children may join the Magic Circle, contribute to The Front Gate Post, a paper, and write plays which are acted out in the Lady's (radio,) barn...
After an hour Mrs. Byram began to wonder what was keeping him. She went out to look. Down by the barn the hogs were grunting excitedly. Packed together, snouts inward, they were lunging, biting, chewing at something big. She came closer and then, screaming, seized a club to beat the animals away from the thing they were eating. Its face was gone, but she knew what...
...century. Sculptor Bufano broke scores of tools on the tough granite before he found a special U. S. steel tool that would last nearly a fortnight. Finally his St. Francis was finished. Sculptor Bufano was out $2,400 of his own money. He moved his St. Francis into a barn, neglected even to have it photographed. From under the arms he quarried two lumps of black granite that he fashioned into two abstract female figures, known as the Twin Peaks. With these he returned to California, blandly expecting San Franciscans to put up $5,000 more to bring his colossus...