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Back in Baltimore he worked part-time as a cutter in a men's suit factory, helped organize the Artists' Union. Blond, stocky, bespectacled Artist Jules came to Manhattan last July and clubbed with two artist friends to rent two big studio rooms in a gloomy building on lower Fifth Avenue. Jules does the cooking for all three. They own a rickety 1927 Chrysler, cannot afford a telephone...
...director (Alan Mowbray), a Russian who wants to send to Switzerland for edelweiss for his Alpine shots, although the edelweiss will not be visible in the blizzard scene for which it is wanted; 2) Cheri (Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take out one of her closeups; 3) Quintain (Humphrey Bogart), a smart, dog-loving producer, driven to drink by his passion for Cheri; 4) Nassau (C. Henry Gordon), a promoter who tries to bankrupt the studios and buy up control...
...table: he knows that unless he kills them first the four will most certainly kill him, as soon as he has landed them in Cuba and his usefulness to them is ended. He kills them, but not before he has received his own death-wound. In the Coast Guard cutter that has picked him up, half-delirious, dying, he tries to voice the dictum that is the book's real motto: " 'A man,' he said. " 'Sure,' said the "captain. 'Go on.' " 'A man,' said Harry Morgan, very slowly...
...almost totally destroyed her ability to move her head, eyes, jaws, tongue, shoulders, hips, legs, knees. The withered frontal lobe proved most interesting to Northwestern's pathologists, for it was not directly affected by the attack of encephalitis lethargica which rendered the young woman inert. Dean Irving Samuel Cutter of Northwestern offered this explanation: "The first stages of encephalitis are sleep, paralyzing of certain cranial nerves, general weakness and acute inflammation chiefly affecting the grey matter in the midbrain region. The secondary effects are inflammation of the capillaries and lymph spaces in the brain proper, filling the spaces with...
Welterweights (147 Ibs.) have only one champion, Chicago's clever 27-year-old Barney Ross who has held the title before and since he abdicated his lightweight title two years ago. Current ranking contender is fierce-faced Ceferino Garcia, a Filipino sugar-cane cutter armed with a looping right-hand punch supposedly suggestive of cane cutting and known as the "bolo punch." Two years ago in a nontitle fight Garcia knocked Ross down in the first round, but Ross outboxed him for the decision on that occasion. He did so again in a second (over-the-weight) meeting...