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...Attorney General James W. Austin finally got a confession from four of Teacher Pauline Rebel's pupils. Their story: Teacher Rebel is nearsighted, even with her glasses. Her pupils stuck lighted matches in the bookcase and behind the window shades to simulate spontaneous combustion. They juggled the coal bucket with long pointers, threw lumps of coal around the room. Their sleight of hand was so skillful that it fooled not only the teacher but suggestible parents, one of whom swore that coals jumped out of his hand...
...coal scuttle near the stove, the lignite coal began to stir. Soon lumps of coal popped spontaneously from the bucket and flew about the room. They hit the walls and Pupil Jack Steiner's head. The bucket capsized. The window shades began to smolder. A dictionary, touched by no human hand, started moving. The book case suddenly burst into flame...
...State Fire Marshal Charles Schwartz organized a full-dress investigation. Submitted to lie-detector tests, Teacher Rebel and her pupils got a clean bill of truth-telling health. Chemists in the state colleges closely analyzed the coal. They could find nothing out of the way. The coal, the bucket and the dictionary were shipped to the FBI in Washington. The citizens of Richardton decided that the schoolhouse was "bewitched." Blonde Mrs. Rebel thought an anonymous letter-writer who had threatened her life might have had something to do with...
Sugar Daddy. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, $10-a-week alimony payer Frank Mosley assembled 1,000 pennies in a bucket of molasses, dug them out again after a visit to the district court...
Back of the command post Colonel Toffey still sat on a tin bucket talking over the radio. "All right, Benny, all right," he said to Lieut. Benny Reece, one of the advanced unit commanders. "We're doing what we can. Don't get excited. Got many casualties? We'll try to get litter bearers up as soon as possible." Several Spitfires chased two German fighter-bombers which had just raided the beach. "The bastards," snorted Toffey...