Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoot." Within a year Kidnaper Hauptmann was arrested (though the credit belonged more to local police and T-men than the FBI). Pretty Boy Floyd was cornered on an Ohio farm and riddled with FBI bullets. Baby Face Nelson was trapped and shot down in a Chicago suburb. In January 1935 Ma and Fred Barker were killed after a two-hour FBI siege in the little Florida town of Oklawaha...
...Brussels, a policeman caught Marcel, a 14-year-old lad, illegally swimming in a canal. A perspiring judge asked the cop: "Did you see him leave the water?" "Yes, sir." "Did you see him enter the water?" "No, sir." "In that case," ruled the humane judge, "the boy is acquitted, for the regulations say that nobody is allowed to enter the canal to bathe; they don't stipulate that it is unlawful to get out of it." In the Paris zoo, penguins squatted on ice cakes. In Madrid, which justified its climatic reputation ("Nueve meses de invierno y tres...
...life. Last week he was asked to make one in a hurry. Muncie's Ball Memorial Hospital, which owned the only iron lung in three counties, suddenly had 28 polio (infantile paralysis) patients on its hands. That lung was in use when Rue Steel, an eight-year-old boy who urgently needed a respirator, was brought in. Hospital Superintendent Nellie Brown asked Reichart if he could turn out an emergency...
...Pacific the Army transport General William O. Darby radioed a plea for an iron lung to save John Driskell, 6, son of a sergeant homeward bound from duty in Japan. The Coast Guard cutter Iroquois raced 1,000 miles from Honolulu with a lung; the boy was transferred to the cutter and taken to the hospital in Hawaii...
Song of India (Columbia) offers a sepia-tinted view of Sabu, onetime Elephant Boy, presiding over a whole jungleful of exotic fauna &. flora. He is especially fond of tigers, which he fondles like outsize tabby cats. He is on intimate terms with all the other jungle beasts and is determined to protect them from the wholesale poachings of a progressive Indian prince (Turhan Bey) in search...