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Sneak Attack. In Memphis, Railroad Worker Earskin Johnson sued for divorce, charged that his wife had asked a voodoo doctor to hex him into giving her his whole paycheck...
Instead of thrusting pins into a dummy or crossing her eyes in a victim's presence, she simply mutilated his photograph. She removed curses by the same dreary system: applicants for de-hexing were told to put a torn photograph under a rug, with the feet pointing to the door so the hex could walk...
...complained about her work to District Attorney James T. Burke. One aggrieved man with a "stomach misery" said he had paid her $60, had drunk a quart of mysterious liquid every three days for five months without any sign of improvement. Another had given her $25 to slap a hex on an undesirable daughter-in-law. The damned thing hadn't worked. Neither had a $40 wife-luring...
Pulmotor Department. To help revive Brewster, Kaiser installed his tall, bespectacled son, Henry Jr., who has been Kaiser's eyes and legs on many a West Coast project, as administrative assistant. His job: to kill off the hex. Then the War Labor Board gave Kaiser a mighty boost by designating an arbiter to settle disputes on the spot, and put Brewster's union on probation for six months. With this solid backing, Kaiser sat down with the tough, headstrong boss of the Brewster union, Tom De Lorenzo,* got from him a promise that the union would cooperate...
...entry into the war moves Gideon, nearly shakes him loose from Marduc. Offered the presidency of Kinnikinick College, Gideon is nostalgically tempted. But Peony Planish keeps him in the field of big-league ballyhoo while she meets "honeybee" Gideon's best friend at the dreary Hex Hotel...