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Elected provisional members at the trials of the Instrumental Clubs Thursday evening were the following: Edward K. Bennett, Jr. '38, Allen W. Clowes '39, Alfred H. Corbett '37, John A. Day '37, William A. Dickson '36, Guy Garland '36, Robert Haydock...
...BOOMERANG CLUE-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Few constables and no Scotland Yard men mar the course of detecting by young Bobby and his girl Frankie. Romance survives near-murder, drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final...
Will Hogan and his wife and two boys were driving to Dickson, Tenn. a pair of young mules; the mules became frightened at the train and ran away with the wagon; Mr. Hogan and his good wife were both thrown out and one of the boys got his head stuck in a ten-gallon can of lard before the mules stopped...
...BLIND BARBER - John Dickson Carr-Harper...
...Pasadena, Calif., when Roy Dickson was barely old enough to walk, his father, a photographer, told him of adventures with snakes in India. The boy toddled off and caught one near his home. Thereafter he wandered through neighboring canyons, developed an uncanny instinct for locating snakes and lizards. Poisonous reptiles he catches with a forked stick, nonpoisonous ones with his bare hands. He has never been bitten. Last week Roy Dickson, 11, fondled a Western Ring snake, rarest of his collection, planned to go after a rattler next...