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...created such a scene that attendants had to remove him bodily. When his wife and her lawyer appeared next morning at the flat he had shared with Belinda, Prince Orsini tamely let himself be led home, but then-in a burst of anger-slashed his wrists with a razor blade...
Witness for the Prosecution (Arthur Hornblow; United Artists). "He's like a drowning man clutching at a razor blade." A famed British barrister (Charles Laughton) is referring to his feckless client (Tyrone Power). Indicted for the murder of a wealthy widow, the fellow faces a trial in which all the evidence-a will too timely altered in his favor, a maid who places him in the house on the night of the murder-is disastrously against him. His only hope is the testimony of his wife (Marlene Dietrich). But on the witness stand the wife declares that...
...Manhattan construction worker, collaborated with another East Side youngster in writing a play, the proceeds to buy Christmas toys for underprivileged children (gross take from ticket sale: "over $2"). Soon afterward an uncle noticed that as Margie sat on a hassock she looked crooked, and her right shoulder blade protruded. The family doctor prescribed a corset, which soon broke and was discarded. Eventually a neighborhood hospital referred the Bilottis to one of the few places in Manhattan that specialize in treating conditions like Margie's, the Hospital for Special Surgery...
...outlook for Congrave was poor. He would probably live, but the skate blade had slashed through the areas that control speech and the movement of the right side of the body. It had also cut some of the white fibers leading from the retinas of both eyes to the visual center in the back of the brain, and other fibers leading from the frontal cortex (associated with intellectual and reasoning functions) to other parts of the brain. George Congrave, 21, a chemical engineering student from Edson, Alberta, seemed likely to spend the rest of his life more like a vegetable...
...start of the uproar over Little Rock one night last September, six hooded men grabbed a Negro named Judge Aaron on a lonely road in Alabama, took him to a deserted shack, castrated him with a razor blade, poured turpentine into the wound (TIME, Sept. 16). Six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested by Alabama police and charged with mayhem. One of the men explained: "We just wanted some nigger at random...