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...blame? The conferees thought they knew the answer. Said Cleveland's Rev. Dores R. Sharpe, Baptist minister, ardent crusader for reform: "John Doe, private citizen, is the real culprit in this shame of democracy...
...rays, injections of gold salts, fever treatment, vaccines, heat applications. But treatments are still hit or miss; too little is known of the disease and its cause. Most doctors believe that worry, infection or poor diet may make a person susceptible. But they are betting that the actual culprit will prove to be a germ...
Empress Eugenie's jewelry-some she wore at Napoleon Ill's court-was among 50 feminine fancies carried off by a thief who burglarized the Louvre. Sniffed the conservator in charge of the Louvre's national treasures: the culprit's choices betrayed "very doubtful taste...
...quay at El Ferrol, where the Caudillo was born, an old man sings to himself: "Francisco, you are done for. Francisco, you are sunk." The police pounce on him. They discover that the culprit is the Caudillo's aged father, who is sure that his son's power & glory are evanescent and will lead him only to ruin...
...Winterset" Anderson protests the criminally negligent handling of the Sacce-Vanzetti trial. Mio Romangna, presumably the son of Vanzetti, attempts to discover the culprit in a murder for which his father was executed; on meeting the sentencing judge he completely besis him in what is almost a re-trial, but his discovery of the killer results in his own destruction. Often considered one of Anderson's finest works, "Winterset" was produced as a movie...