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Gloom hung heavy over all the western clubs, but the blackest cloud was over the once-mighty Cardinals (who had only managed to break even in 26 games). First Marty Marion and Al Schoendienst went on the injured list, then Pitcher Max Lanier went home for probable induction. At this point Mort Cooper, the Cards' No. 1 pitcher, walked out. He still wanted his paycheck boosted to $15,000 or else (TIME, April...
...nation's newspapers had been warned: V-E day will be official only when it is announced jointly by the Big Three. Yet many of them, on Saturday, April' 28, broke out their blackest type. The Chicago Times took up its entire front page to say: VICTORY EXTRA. GERMANY QUITS. The Knoxville Journal spread one. word ten inches deep...
...Russian Is Missing. Moscow announced Russia's San Francisco delegation last week, and it did not include Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Washington, London, Paris instantly leaped to the blackest conclusion: Stalin just didn't give a damn...
...Blackest Market. Perhaps by way of warning, Dr. Goodman darkly reviews in the British Medical Journal the long history of dissection, which got its start on the bodies of criminals and engendered the blackest of black markets-the traffic in corpses. By the 18th Century there was a flourishing body-snatching industry in England and America. At standard prices (which in England rose gradually from ?2 to ?14) these businessmen guaranteed to deliver to a medical school any given body, sometimes snatching a corpse almost from under its mourners' noses. From grave-robbing, dealers in cadavers took to replenishing...
...Things have gone from bad to worse here. We are passing through the blackest era in our history. Frankly, I don't know what to say to you. Nobody dares speak a word...