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...heavy blow on the head. She had been dead about twelve hours, but a woman's voice had answered the telephone in the room only two hours before the body was found. Perplexed, the policemen hunted the man with whom Mrs. Harlass had been living, a butcher named Frisch. Frisch said he had not seen his mistress for two days, had spent the time in "night clubs." He had obviously been drunk. Asked if he would take scopolamine to refresh his memory, he agreed. Frisch was taken to a hospital, given four hypodermic injections of 1/150 grains each...
...wrap itself so thoroughly around a tree that front and rear bumpers interlock, requiring an acetylene torch to cut them apart. ... A leg or arm stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost (2?each), with a special price of $1.50 per hundred...
...Author. James Hanley was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the age of 13, joined the Army during the War, has worked as a stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, postman, and has been a centre of critical controversy since he began to write. His grim short stories, Men in Darkness, and his novel, Boy, won praise from the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence and other English writers, censure from Author Hugh Waipole and critics who believe that fiction should be polite. Deeply influenced by Balzac and Turgenev, James Hanley has a special dislike for the romances of Joseph...
...debating champion, a War veteran. The Negroes danced with Mamie and Regina. The intellectuals informed the girls that they were on their way to make an investigation of Cuban tyranny and undercover U. S. capitalist influence in Cuba. Their particular prey was to be ''America's butcher boy in Cuba," U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Every one of them was, moreover, the official representative of a portentous-sounding Union, League, Association, Order or Committee. And they bought drinks and talked. Mamie and Regina suddenly had visions of a lovely time in Cuba...
...opportunity. Three weeks ago France hesitantly took the plunge, signed a Treaty of Mutual Assistance with Russia (TIME, May 13). Last week Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France, arrived in Moscow to see what kind of a bargain he had. It was probably the best bargain the realistic little butcher's son had ever made in his life...