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...EYES OF DEATH-John Bentley- Crime Club ($2). Introducing Sophisticate Richard Herrivell Bart, antiquarian, who suavely guides blunt Chief Inspector Barton through the psychological maze left by a brutal, clever murderer...
...promptly flashed charges to Geneva that it was the Italians who wantonly attacked. He further charged that the frontier cities of Ado and Gerlogubi had been pelted by Italian airmen with bombs. Two days later Geneva newshawks were handed by Italy's local diplomatic mission copies of a blunt, unsigned manifesto from Rome. Couched in the first person, it stated that "I will not" submit to League arbitration of the Ualual Incident. All this African fracas might just possibly be the overture to II Duce's long postponed symphony of colonial conquest...
...blunt speech before a special session of the imperial Diet--the Teikoku Jikai--the Foreign Minister asserted that Japan proposes abolition of the ratio principle of naval strength between herself, Britain, and the United States and "Establishment of a common upper limit for the powers concerned...
When ready for grafting, a small incision is made through the skin of the recipient, at the axilla or groin, and a pocket pushed open by blunt dissection in the areolar tissue near the large blood vessels. The various fragments of graft are picked up on a pipette containing salt solution, squirted into the pocket, and the small incision sutured. If the grafts take, they grow slowly in size and after a number of weeks or months restore the physiology of the recipient to normal...
...city editor how to get to Canarsie." and that "Women, wampum and wrong-doing are always news," the reporter may, after several years, earn nearly $50 a week. A small group who have "legs, wind, imagination, knowledge, a sleepless curiosity, and can write in the blunt Saxon tongue" will climb to the top. City Editor Walker pays a rare tribute to "The Man With the Green Eyeshade" -the underpaid, unappreciated copyreader, who cuts the purple prose out of the reporter's copy, corrects his spelling, keeps the paper out of libel suits. He salutes the energy and courage...