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Dhanalakshmi was invited to visit the civil hospital in Mercara, where, visited repeatedly by her family and a horde of relatives, she was studied by doctors for 19 days. Dr. T. B. Medappa pronounced himself amazed: "I am convinced this is not a bogus case." Dhanalakshmi lost four pounds during the observation. "She derives nutrition for herself from atmosphere and the soil she walks on," explained one of her followers. "In the hospital there is no soil to walk upon...
Last week the Defense Department released a transcript of some of the bogus germ-warfare confessions, along with testimony given by the U.S. officers after they got back home. Excerpts...
...acquiescence, aquiescence, acqui-esance) to literature ("What Joseph Lincoln did for Cape Cod, Sarah Orne Jewett did for 1) Florida, 2) Maine, 3) Oregon, 4) Michigan"). But just knowing the usual subjects is far from enough. To test their intelligence, the Point also presents candidates with a whole new bogus language that changes from year to year...
...London stage will send its usual handful of hopefuls: The Little Hut, a quadrangle play about a husband, his wife and her lover, shipwrecked on a desert island with an amorous and bogus native; and two mysteries, A Pin to See the Peep Show and Gently Does It, both hoping to duplicate the Broadway success of London's Dial M for Murder...
...trying to answer these questions, Author Warren clutters up the story and gives it a bogus air by putting long-winded rationalizations into Jefferson's mouth. Southern violence has always had a heady appeal for Warren, and villainous hotheads seem to have some lien on his sympathies. Even in All the King's Men, the Huey Long-like Willie Stark was perhaps handled with too much solicitude. Now, in Brother to Dragons, Lilburn's crime is so hedged in by sympathy that it sometimes seems as if poor George should have been proud to be dismembered...