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...rifles. As the mob approached. General Manuel Contreras shouted: "Justice will be meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed out over their heads, then another straight at the leaders. The crowd broke. Dead in the gutter lay Romano Maldonado, 8; Salvadore Vasquez, 14; Vidal Torres, 56. Fourteen others lay wounded...
...feel who fell, unwillingly, from the window of a high-up room and yet kept his consciousness. ... I don't know how it happened and I am wildly tempted to call fate some very ugly names, if I had not just taken a sacred vow never to use gutter words again...
From the drunkard of the gutter to the City Editor of a newspaper...
...story deals with the increasing sorrow of an up-from-the-gutter wife who sees the daughter she has raised from babyhood to womanhood won over to the rich, gentlemanly, but alienated husband. At the end, however, there is crowning joy as the mother sees her child achieve in a happy society marriage the prominence she had always longed...
...DEPTHS & THE HEIGHTS-Jules Romains-Knopf ($3). Vol. VI of Romains' monumental novel-about-Paris, Men of Good Will (TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.). In this installment Novelist George Allory, bitterly chagrined by his failure of election to the Academy, begins his tumble to the gutter; while Psychiatrist Viaur starts climbing to the stars. No end is in sight, and Author Romains has not divulged how much is yet to come...