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...practicing piscatorialist, there are several possible explanations. The young man may have been swallowed by a dragon, drowned by accident or bored to death by Mr. Stamm's tropical fish. Detective Vance proves that none of these hypotheses is correct. Stamm has dressed himself in a diving suit with claw fingers, choked his guest to death, for insufficient reasons...
...months. Curbing his reckless Johnsonese, he did not say that all his opponents were chiselers, did not claim that NRA was responsible for all recovery to date. And in opening his remarks he even put in a word of understanding for the newspaper publishers who battled him tooth and claw to get freedom of the Press written into their code. Said the NRAdministrator...
...islands, but most are on Komodo. Komodo is a volcanic island 22 mi. long and 12 mi. wide, covered with bleak, crumbling mountains, grassy plains, thick jungle. Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared, highly emotional. Angered, they hiss like boilers. Frightened, they...
Scratching over the military expenditures section of France's new budget, editors of a political weekly called La Griffe (The Claw) thought they had uncovered another government scandal last week. The French air force of 2,286 effective planes is magnificently staffed with 23 generals, 38 colonels, 73 lieutenant-colonels. 238 battalion chiefs. Tucked in the budget are orders calling for the creation of 40 more battalion chiefs, setting aside 7,498,000 francs for "leave of absence expenses" for the 23 generals, raising the salary of each member of the Air Council 29,880 francs, and giving...
These protests were still ringing in the air when once again the Blue Eagle loosed a claw full of lightning bolts. They singed a Passaic, N. J. beautician; scorched the owner of the New Deal Cafe in Cincinnati; crackled around five other restaurateurs from Evanston, 111. to Austin, Tex. All were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia. But NRA announced that of 3.000.000 Blue Eagles issued, only 48 had so far been recalled...