Word: jeane
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...others: Mrs. Anna Edson Taylor in 1901; Bobby Leach in 1911 (he died a few years later, after slipping on a banana peel); Jean Lussier, in a rubber ball, in 1928. Two others tried and perished, in 1920 and 1930. Red Hill saw the second...
Ever since January, the Paris police have felt sure that mousy Dr. Jean Duflos is an unimaginative, old-fashioned poisoner and that he killed his wife with arsenic. They arrested him on the way to her funeral, but for a clear cut case, they needed to know exactly when the poison was given-the one thing their toxicologists couldn't tell them. The body, which tries hard to protect itself from arsenic, stores it away in the skin, fingernails and hair. But even after examining hundreds of samples of such clues, toxicologists can seldom do more than report approximately...
...France, where arsenic has been a popular eliminator since the days of the famed Marquise de Brinvilliers,* this lack of precision troubled Henri Griffon, toxicology specialist for the Paris prefecture of police. He discussed the problem with his old friend, Captain Jean Barbaud, physicist and fellow graduate of the Val de Grâce military hospital. Together they worked out an answer. They brought the hair from a known arsenic victim to "Zoé," the atomic pile at Châtillon. For eight days they bombarded the hair in the pile's neutron flux. Then, when the elements...
B.V.D. sparked another style revolution in the '30s, when its publicity stills of Olympic Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in B.V.D. bathing trunks helped start the fad of topless swimming trunks for men. With the late Cinemactress Jean Harlow as a model, B.V.D. helped start the trend toward skirtless, one-piece bathing suits for women. But in 1934, Hollywood dealt men's underwear a near-mortal blow. In It Happened One Night, Clark Gable took off his shirt, and revealed that he wore no undershirt. Sales of men's underwear in the U.S. dropped 40% in a single year...
Marie du Port (Bellon-Foulke International) is a rueful French comedy relating, with De Maupassant relish, the unequal struggle between a middle-aged roue (Jean Gabin) and an innocent young barmaid (Nicole Courcel), who is the young sister of his mistress. While his mistress attends her father's funeral in a Breton fishing village, Gabin idles about the town, casts a speculative eye on a boat which is for sale and on the barmaid who is not. Both boat and barmaid bring him back to tiny Port-au-Bessein, but he is unable to enjoy either: the boat...