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...lift houses with one finger, crush temple gates with his bare hands. The plot: a villainous lord, who has usurped the rule of the country, orders the decapitation of some people accused of losing a precious sword. Suddenly the brave hero appears, shouting "Shibaraku!" He then exposes the true culprit, the villain's henchman, thus saves the innocents' lives...
...University of Oklahoma decided that it would be only proper for him to crack the case himself. Last week he got one of his students to cooperate, told him to let it be known that he needed an advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand to greet him. The culprit and his three cohorts quickly confessed. They had gotten the examination questions from a used Mimeograph stencil that had been tossed into...
President David H. Morgan promptly started an investigation but failed to tag the culprit. Nevertheless, said he: "We in no way condone the action of any group of students . . . to determine who should or should not attend this state-owned institution. John Clark is still enrolled here and . . . may return with no fear of further disruption . . ." Home in Odessa (pop. 29,500). John Clark announced that he would rather not go back...
...police that, in case a riot starts, the police will divert traffic from the college area, prevent townspeople from joining the fun, and leave the actual quashing of the trouble to the proctors. When a Princeton does get in trouble with the town police, Chief Mahan generally turns the culprit over to the proctor, who holds him for the deanery to deal with...
...secret German Foreign Office documents. It was on information supplied by Wood that Dulles found the first evidence that someone in the British embassy in Turkey was selling vital Allied secrets to the Nazis. Following up Dulles' lead, the British eventually discovered that the culprit was Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen's valet "Cicero," who, thanks to the movie Five Fingers, has become World War II's best-publicized...