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This caused some controversy between them. But eventually they bundled Janet's body up in a trunk, carted it to a rented house in suburban Queens, and buried her in cement in the basement. A few days later they turned up in Grand Rapids, Mich., and after suitable preliminaries, moved in with a new prospect-a pretty, 31-year-old widow named Deliphene Downing...
...Kafka tells of the ordeal of an accused man who is never told the charges on which he is being tried. For the past 8½ months, many U.S. businessmen have felt somewhat the same. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the basing-point method of setting prices in cement (TIME, May 10) had been so vague that many businessmen were not sure what was and what wasn't legal. Last week, in answer to six questions from the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, the Federal Trade Commission took most of the mystery...
...another royal romance went aground-that of Farouk's sister and Farida's childhood playmate, 27-year-old Princess Fawzia with the Shah of Persia. Since the day in 1939 when she was palmed off on an amiable, feckless young prince, whom she had never met, to cement relations between his country and hers, blue-eyed Fawzia's marriage had traveled much the same rocky road as her brother...
...Under the arching roof of Nanking's new railroad station thousands of unwashed, penniless students from Honan and Shantung are camped on the dirty cement floor, waiting for a train to resettle them somewhere below the Yangtze. One plays a forlorn tune on a two-stringed Chinese violin. Others huddle beneath filthy grey quilts, while streams of noisy, heavy-laden travelers flow around them. The pump is their lavatory. Their guardian, the Education Ministry, can feed them only one rice meal daily-usually around midnight...
Featured in the issue was the cartoon reproduced above, which did little to cement the bond of friendship between the two institutions...