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Also the Action Committees are certainly not so grue-some as they are described by the Western press. In the Central Action Committee sits also the Dean of our Faculty, Dr. Jan Kozak, Dr. Hromadka, the head of the Czech Brethren Church, and many other non-communists. In our faculty three professors and five docents were put on the retired list. None of really high standard or known to you. Also some few students--seven--were expelled. The English department is untouched. All the decisions of the Action Committee will be verified once more . . . I think even in this respect...
This dual aim to inform readers solemnly on the problem of crime & punishment, and at the same time raise their hair with tales of gangster grue ran through 100 pages of Prison Life Stories. Director Sanford Bates of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons contributed an earnest description of "Our Island Fortress, Alcatraz." Two pages later came a lurid account of "Ohio's 'Bathtub Crime,' " complete with a provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal...
...crime addicts, much of the grue went out of the case when a State chemist reported that the vault stains had not been made by blood, that the bones were from roast beef and had probably been dragged under the veranda...
...book's merit (which ill-informed reporters may wrongly ascribe to the Ernest Hemingway influence) is its strength of understatement. Out of a horrible theme it wrings the least possible amount of unnecessary grue. If anyone complains, "Why be gruesome?" un-gay Author Matthews may reply with some justice: "Well, the newspapers are full of this sort of thing. It happens all the time, doesn...
Forthwith let the Miscellany Department reduce its percentage of grue...