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...everyone right. A broken reed! You cannot count either. President Truman is the 32nd person to be President. If one refers to him as the 32nd President, that is half-true. But when he is called the 32nd President of the U.S., you have permitted an error to creep in. Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th President of the U.S. It is true that the records of Congress list F.D.R. as the 31st President. But the Congress is a separate branch of the Government. Check with the Constitution. WILLIAM E. BARINGER, PH.D. The Abraham Lincoln Association Springfield...
...corpses in the crematorium yard. You cannot adequately describe starved men; they just look awful and unnatural. There was nothing but their bones beneath the tightly stretched skin, none of the roundedness, the curving and the flat places, the swelling muscles which men usually have. They walk or creep or lie around and seem about as animate as the barracks and fence posts and the stones on Buchenwald's bare, hard-packed earth, and when they are dead they are corpses and then gone...
...habit of hanging a toy elephant in his nursery window and lying awake watching it; his inexplicably intense hatred of his new governess. As sophisticated Producer John Houseman and his players knock these and other ingredients against each other, they give off an occasional resonance that makes your flesh creep for the nearest mental foxhole...
...Thunderbolt pilots, 22-year-old Lieut. Edward Syszmanski is "The Mad Polack of Brooklyn," in recognition of his fanatic artistry at ground-level train-busting. The Syszmanski technique: "I come in from the back of a train, aiming at the third car from the engine. I watch the bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh. Others just puke steam-I only...
...Great Fog displays Author Heard in both guises. As H.F. he makes the flesh creep; as Gerald in disguise he makes the conscience crawl. A few of the stories are straight mysteries and scientific thrillers, in which the principal elements are a woman's ear, a Siamese cat, a crayfish, a fog which covers the whole world. The other stories are trial balloons inflated by Gerald. They involve an eerie Gothic cathedral, with a mystic message for those who know how to find it ; an English spinster who is saved from suicide by tooth ache and theosophy; a couple...