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...racing," pigeon racing is nowhere so popular as it is in the Ruhr. Miners breed and raise their birds with loving attention, bet heavily on the pigeons' speed and natural navigation skills, bridle at the very thought of selling their pets for food. Last month, when a rash crook kidnaped half a dozen prizewinners and sent one of his own homers with a ransom note, the whole valley rose in wrath. Pigeon partisans tagged the go-between pigeon with streamers, trailed it by plane back to its loft, and turned the rustler over to the courts...
Through professional archaeological friends, the amateurs got their hearth dated by a new carbon 14 apparatus in the laboratory of the Humble Oil & Refining Co. at Houston. Last week Crook and Harris were celebrating the second and bigger climax: the charcoal had proved to be 37,000 years...
Last March, two Texas amateur archaeologists. Advertising Man WTilson Crook Jr. and Railroad Engineer R. K. Harris, found a peculiar stone spear point in a patch of charcoal-blackened earth a few miles outside Dallas. Near it were bones of now extinct animals: camels, horses, an elephant...
...friends and collaborators in crimebusting, Sergeant Sammy Golden and Father Joseph Shanley. The Jewish cop and the Roman Catholic priest are not only believable characters; they emerge as intelligent, genuinely good men who, therefore, understand the nature of wrongdoing. When these two set out to nail a crook, the standard good-v.-evil struggle takes on depth and excitement. There is probably a valuable lesson here for writers of the unrelieved tough-guy school, in which the hero's morals are as shady as those of the villains...
...field of political service for their own profit and advantage," says Roman Catholic Bishop John King Mussio of Steubenville, Ohio, in the current issue of the Catholic weekly, The Ave Maria. The corrupt Catholic politician, he continued, "is neither Catholic nor a politician. Speaking bluntly, he is a cheap crook who uses the faith as another gimmick to help get him into the lush field of easy pickings...