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...Washington, police broke into a dark basement, found hysterical Mrs. Lytle and silent Mr. Lytle writhing on a heap of ashes. Screamed Mrs. Lytle: "He forced me to come down here and then he grabbed me. He's got me by the hand and he won't let go!" Police found her swollen fingers twisted in her husband's necktie, her husband dead from strangulation, a butcher knife and a poker nearby...
...until, in 1918, the Soviet government of Russia expressed its official uninterest in paying the debts of the Czarist regime, sixteen billion gold francs, drained slowly from the savings of the French people, were loaned to Russia, secured by bonds that have long since been tossed on the rubbish heap. Most of the profit in the sixteen billion found its way back to Schneider-Creusot and is today in their factories and their bank accounts...
...Bellboy golfers put a second break in what had all the earmarks of becoming a losing streak by eking out a bare 5-4 win over the Rabbits yesterday. This victory boosts them from next to last to third place. The Gold Coasters are still on top of the heap, with the Puritans right under them...
...sole purpose of ridicule. I sincerely hope that TIME magazine could have been prompted by no other impulse than to hold up to ridicule a man who first betrays his country and then, in a puerile effort to curry favor in a foreign land, so belittles himself as to heap upon his fellow-countrymen the insults and falsehoods to which this man has given utterance...
...Trieste-born Greek who three years ago succeeded the late infamous Henri Desire Landru as France's most spectacular murderer when a M. Poncel returned from a vacation in Italy to his villa near Marseilles. M. Poncel found the dining room floor ruined by strange stains, a heap of acid-eaten rags near the garden hedge, and a horrid stinking mess in a corner of the garden. Georges Sarret had prepared carefully for his chosen profession of insurance murderer by studying medicine, chemistry and law at Marseilles. He also needed confederates. These he found in the persons...