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...first book since For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) would be out in March, and 2) Hemingway had been close to death last February when he started writing it. As his publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, told the story: Hemingway suffered blood poisoning in February from a fragment of shotgun wadding that lodged in his eye while he was shooting wild fowl in Italy. Doctors gave him a short time to live. Feeling that he could not finish the novel "of large proportions" that he had been working on for years, he started writing a new one, went right...
...baseman, Eddie Kazak, was a paratrooper and combat infantryman; he was bayoneted by a Nazi soldier in hand-to-hand fighting near Brest, France ("I think I shot the Nazi, but maybe I missed," he says), and later had part of his right elbow blown off by a shell fragment. After discharge, with a plastic patch in his elbow, he changed his name from Tkaczuk to Kazak and began slugging his way up the minor-league ladder (Columbus, Ga.; Omaha; Rochester). Last week, with his .309 batting average making up for occasional fielding lapses, the Cardinals' Kazak...
Deftly a girl picks up a cancer fragment with a trocar (a tubular needle with a plunger inside). She grabs a faintly squeaking mouse, holds it by the scruff of its neck, efficiently jabs the trocar into the skin of its belly and up under a front leg. She plants the cancer by pushing it out with the plunger. Then she reaches for another mouse...
...This fragment was presented to us be an ancient oriental, an habitue of the ovals, so to speak, who claims descent from Confucius, and who has shown remarkable prowess of late at Lincoin Downs. We quote in part...
When Scotland Yard found some acid-charred human bones and a fragment of what appeared to be the widow's red plastic handbag in the yard of an abandoned factory, Haigh was arrested. London's liveliest dailies splashed the story over Page One. After reporters learned that the Yard was hunting five other missing persons, the tabloid Mirror, the world's largest daily (circ. 4,000,000) and London's most sensational, promptly cried "Bluebeard" and headlined: HOW MANY RICH WIDOWS DIED...