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...solve the murder of Richard Lacewell, a Negro found shot to death. He remembered a detective story sleuth who deduced his man from the picture of the slayer that the dead man's eyeballs had retained. Sleuth Hargrove photographed the dead man's eyes, enlarged the photographs, beheld a likeness of another Negro, one Tyman Graham. Confirming science, Suspect Graham confessed. Said Sleuth Hargrove: "Knowledge is power," not knowing that the human eyeball retains in death no picture whatever...
...Friday November 19 and 20. The play, a comedy in three acts and a prologue, was dramatized by Kane Campbell from the book of the same name by "Elizabeth," German novelist. Rehearsals will begin immediately under the direction of Mrs. Benjamin Sibley, coach of the Brookline Amateurs and will beheld regularly for the next three weeks. Tickets will be on sale after November 12 at Agassiz House in the Radcliffe Yard...
...loss. They understood that the Senator was raised with nine brothers and sisters on an Illinois farm. They knew how-to get away from it all-he studied law and fled to bad Boise in woolly Idaho. In the years since the death of Henry Cabot Lodge, they have beheld how Borah's tongue has grown golden, how he has leaned out and blossomed as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, how now he walks in the full stature of a giant of the Senate...
...Australia came a story of two large creatures. One was an old mining prospector called ''Big Jim," 6 ft. 8 in., 250 Ib. "Fossicking" for opals on the Stuart Range of Central Australia,* he heard a peculiar sound. Looking up he beheld an enormous reptilian beast close ahead of him. Big Jim snatched up some rocks, slung them at the creature. It lashed its tail and charged, uttering a roar which sounded to Big Jim like the mingled bark of a dog and the growl of a lion...
...Mexico City, burning passion for a black-eyed tailor named Sergio Silva consumed two ladies. Senoritas Sofia Mendoza and Maria de los Angeles Garcia. Early one morning a drowsy policeman beheld the two women facing each other, each with one hand to the black shawl around her shoulders, a blazing pistol in the other. As the policeman ran forward Sofia Mendoza dropped with a bullet in her breast...