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Three-Dimension, "the four-eyed revolution," had hit the land hard. Quite by accident, as it walked around in a daze of depression, Hollywood had tripped over a firing cord and shot off a telling reply to television. "Third-dementia," the newest entertainment craze, was luring crowds back to the movies in such numbers as Hollywood had not seen since the end of World War II. By the millions they came, to peer through an eye-straining haze of alcohol and iodine (the basic ingredients of the H Polarizer) at a simple optical illusion whose principle was known to Euclid...
...abortion. Despite her conscious ignorance of biology, she told in detail of having been "just a tiny spot," then beginning to grow bigger. From the patient's mother, Dr. Kelsey learned that she had indeed been unwanted, and had been almost strangled at birth by the umbilical cord. "Not surprisingly, [the mother denied] any attempt at procuring a miscarriage...
...being summer in Cambridge, Joseph minded not a bit. For when the humidity and the mercury begin waging their battle for prominence here in Boston, even cord jackets become superfluous. Attractive sporting clothes are then required--but they must be comfortable at the same time...
...most part, warm-weather attire remains a pretty stable affair. Cool, classic, and casual, the raw materials are cotton and acetate. Seersucker and cord suits, light-colored dresses made of cotton, and Bermuda shorts are among the Spring stand...
...into the dark space, and found two more bodies trussed in blankets. The men from Scotland Yard came next morning, pulled up some suspiciously loose floorboards, and found a fourth body. All the women had been subjected to what the Yard called "uncontrollable, passionate outbursts," and then strangled with cord or rope. One, a woman of 54, turned out to be Ethel Christie, wife of the man who just vacated the flat. She had been dead for four months. The others proved to be a tall, shapely, Irish girl who worked as a waitress in a cheap truckers' cafe...