Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Kevin Butler. 33. son of U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Pierce Butler; of injuries suffered when he fell through a Pullman car lavatory window at "Devil's Bend.'' one of Pennsylvania Railroad's sharpest curves; at Greensburg...
Edward Clark Lilley, prominent Broadway book director, is in charge of the direction. He has directed, among others, the musical shows "The Show Is On, "Between The Devil,' and "Virginia." This year's book was written by John MacD. Graham '38, Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, and Benjamin Welles...
Most contemporary tales of Devil's Island and its fugitives are traceable to the career of one man-a diminutive Frenchman named René Belbenoit. In 1927 he supplied Blair Niles with the background material for her best-selling romance, Condemned, to Devil's Island. On May 2, 1935, Rene Belbenoit made his fifth escape from Devil's Island. When he arrived in Los Angeles, two years later, an emaciated, toothless old man of 38, the legends circulated about that sensational escape had made him the best-known fugitive ever to be confined to French Guiana...
Though each year 700 new convicts arrive at Devil's Island, at year's end death and desertion account for about 700 missing. Thus the convict population remains constant at about 3,500. Dry Guillotine illustrates these grim statistics in the making, grinds on with an almost casual description of diseases, guillotinings, tortures, feuds, corruption. In the end a kind of tranquillity creeps into Belbenoit's account...
...superhuman tennis machine, he is still the best amateur tennist in the world. At Adelaide he had reached the semi-finals without losing a set. In the other half of the draw, Baron von Cramm had reached the semi-finals too. Prospects were good for another pull-devil-pull-baker Budge-von Cramm final, as dramatic as the ones at Wimbledon and Forest Hills last summer. But while Budge in his semifinal was easily upsetting Australia's No. i Adrian Quist (6-4, 6-2, 8-6), von Cramm made the mistake of losing to his opponent, Australia...