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Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley; Victor). A new singer with a new twist: a double voice that alternates between a high, unpleasant quaver, reminiscent of Johnnie Ray at his fiercest, and a rich basso that might be smooth if it were not for its spasmodic delivery. Heartbreak Hotel, yelps the high voice, is where he's going to get away from it all. Answers the basso: he'll be sorry...
...Bharat province could not overlook a police file which recounted in more than one ton of official documents a gory tale of 185 murders and more than 1,000 robberies committed by Man Singh over nearly 27 years. Man Singh was not only a respected local chieftain, but the fiercest and most feared dacoit (bandit) in all India...
...died that year in Auschwitz' deadly shower rooms were 52 members of the family of Malchiel Greenwald. Malchiel himself managed to escape, found his way to Palestine, and cast his lot and his hopes for the future with the Irgun Zwei Leumi, the party that fought with the fiercest zeal against the British for Israel nationalism. But uppermost in Malchiel's mind was the fate that had befallen his relatives in Hungary. A bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding out who had betrayed them. Last year, after poring through mountains...
...State's defending champion, Heavyweight Mike McMurtry, was belted glassy-eyed, a spectator's voice sounded clear above the hush: "That may be the best thing ever hit Mike. He's been thinking of turning pro. I hope this'll cure him." For even the fiercest collegiate fan likes to look on boxing as a sensible sport; few find the pro prize ring a fit place for a postgraduate career...
...keep several other kitchen operations going at once. She is very firm, too, about measurements and directions generally: "Pour them [the eggs] into a saucepan-yes, a saucepan, no, not a frying pan." This is richer cooking than most U.S. diners are used to, but it will be the fiercest Francophobe who can read Alice's recipes and not hanker for a taste, the dullest cook who will not want to get to the kitchen and try them out. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book is, after all. the work of a lady who can ask (and leave unanswered...