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...Suretè Gènèrale on the Rue des Saussaies, Gestapomen had tortured prisoners with near-freezing baths, electric currents, beatings. Scratched on the walls of cells: "Long live eternal France! . . . Never confess ! . . . My God, I have confidence in Thee...
Miss Edna, rated one of the South's best all-around newswomen, started her career on the Free Press more years ago than she will confess. Against the wishes of her editor father, she then went to New York and landed a kind of country-visitor feature job on the Evening World. Her boss was the late, tyrannical Charles...
...Lord Vansittart. "It's a terrible thing to say of any public figure, but I confess that (after reading Vansittart's Lessons of My Life and Black Record) I was provoked to class him with Sir Samuel Hoare. If he is not nearly so silly, he certainly comes off the same shelf. He seemed as oblivious to what is happening to mankind today, on the whole, as a well-fed cat asleep, and his ideas of legitimate controversy seemed about as subtle as those of the same animal out on the tiles...
...Mice and Men. Then eight mice were inoculated with a deadly strain of streptococci. Says Dr. Florey: "We sat up through the night injecting penicillin every three hours into the treated group [four mice]. I must confess that it was one of the more exciting moments when we found in the morning that all the untreated mice were dead and all the penicillin-treated ones alive." During that historic night, Dr. Fleming's vision turned into a medical reality...
There was a cupboard in the room whose unknown contents terrified Peter more than the blows. When he said: "I have nothing to confess," they opened its doors (there was a typed inventory of its contents on the inside of the door) and brought out implements of leather and steel, neatly hung on hooks. Stripped, he was bent over a table, his head down, his chin pressed against the rough wooden board smelling of carbolic soap. The first three strokes seemed to split his body in two. "Each new stroke lit up an electric bulb behind his eyeballs and caused...