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...Avenue in New York's Van Cortlandt Park, early one morning last week. It was identified as Benita Franklin Bischoff, alias Vivian Gordon, a racketeering lady of light virtue. She had been strangled to death with a clothesline. With the discovery of her corpse, the city's fetid judiciary investigation, hitherto concerned with Extortion, Bribery and Corruption, now had to reckon with Murder...
Less pleasant than Sing Sing are New York's Auburn and Dannemora, with their ancient cell blocks, cramped, fetid cells, loathsome bucket system of sewage disposal, where last summer's riotings began. Less pleasant, too, is the State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., where a deadly, guard-killing outbreak took place (TIME, Oct. 14). Less pleasant also is the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., last summer's fourth rioter, where Warden T. B. White has had to pack convicts by twos and threes into one-man cells, stuff them by scores into cell-house basements...
...Scott Haldane, 69,* brother of the late Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane (onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), was born in Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Honorary Professor of the University of Birmingham. Outside the academic world, he has studied mining, scientific diving and the fetid depths of factories, has written on respiration, air analysis, ventilation...
Cold winds blew Chicago's packing house stenches over the Union Stock Yard. But the trainloads of farmers, breeders, fitters, butchers, hay & grain raisers there with their families minded the fetid air not at all. They were in Chicago for their year's biggest holiday...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., one Nettie Friedman found a seat on a subway train, one afternoon last week. It was hot (84° F.) and fetid. People yawned and wagged their heads drowsily. Miss Friedman yawned. Nobody noticed anything wrong about her. At the end of ten minutes, she was still engaged in the same yawn, with her tongue hanging out a little farther. The lower part of her face and jaw were paralyzed. Several subway folk tried to help her, failed, then carried her off the train and called an ambulance. At the Jewish Hospital, a doctor massaged her face...