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...Corona goes to trial, it would surely be the goriest-and hence the most sensational-in the nation's annals of mass murder. Whatever happens, one thing is certain: there will be no float-parade trophy this year to fill the other front window of the neat house on Richland Road. The window is occupied anyway-by a brass balance scale, the ancient symbol of justice...
...just couldn't match the exhilarating poor taste of the murder scenes of Charade, still we could hope. After all, in a 1928 film the Spanish director Bunuel managed an extreme closeup of a razor slicing an eyeball. But in M peeling an orange with a switchblade is the goriest Lorre ever gets...
...story was old when John Webster used it to write that goriest of Elizabethan dramas, The Duchess of Malfi; Webster borrowed it from a story...
...City of Terror. Last week the young man was the object of a nationwide manhunt. Short minutes before Bus No. 8 took on its mysterious passenger, one of the goriest crimes had been committed since the days of Jack the Ripper. Creeping into the Y.W.C.A. near the Lee Bank Road bus stop, a killer had broken into the room of fresh-faced Stephanie Baird, 29, an unemployed typist who was packing for a Christmas trip to Scotland. He seized one of Stephanie's blunt table knives, hacked and ripped her body, and ended the sadistic orgy, which police claim...
Italy's hell-for-rubber Piero Taruffi, 50, the "Old Fox" and winner of the goriest Mille Miglia road race, which brought death to Spain's Marquis de Portage, two other drivers and nine spectators (TIME, May 20), decided to leave his profession alive. "I have sworn to my wife Isabella that I will never race again," said he solemnly. "Roads have become insufficient in the face of mechanical progress. It is impossible to guarantee the safety of spectators...