Word: killers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Campus Killer. A bad place for girls to be at night was the lovely, leafy campus of Los Angeles City College and the neighborhood around it. Anya Sosoyeva, 32, a blonde dancer and drama student, was bludgeoned to death in one of its lanes last February. Bludgeoned, robbed (of 35?) but not killed was Delia Bogard, 18, who sometimes danced in L. A. C. C. plays. Bludgeoned, raped and left to live was Nursemaid Myrtle Wagner, 17. Hammered to death while abed at home was Mrs. Margaret Campbell, 56, a onetime actress who taught drama...
...raped Myrtle Wagner after he had looted her employer's home. On his way to the campus to show police and newsmen how he had worked, he was allowed to visit a barber, get rid of his beard. Publicity-wise, cinemad Los Angeles prosecutors and police then had Killer Cook put on an act as fantastic as it was morbid. For grinding sound cameras (ostensibly at hand to record evidence) a neighborhood blonde impersonated Anya Sosoyeva. Clinton Cook stalked the willing stand-in as he had stalked the dancer, socked her with a roll of paper (see cut), dragged...
...Antarctic last year were all but a few of the world's 40 floating factories and scores of killer ships (small motor vessels from which the whales are harpooned, then towed to a floating factory). Their catch: 46,039 whales; 3,340,330 barrels of oil (over 90% of the world total). Of this the U. S. share was about 3%. Using Norwegian killer ships, the Ulysses caught over 1,400 whales, boiled them down, sold the oil to U. S. soap manufacturers at an average price of about 5? a pound. Ready to send his refinery back...
...Revenue Act of 1938 Congress put a prohibitive excise tax of 3? a pound on whale oil produced with the aid of foreign killer ships. This does not benefit U. S. harpooners because there are none but it suits U. S. farm and fish lobbies, because whale oil competes in a small way with domestic oils and fats in soap making. The whalers sponsored an amendment postponing the excise for five years. Last week Congress adjourned without acting on it. To Whaler Isbrandtsen that meant: 1) buying a fleet of killer ships (estimated cost of eight if U. S. built...
DEATH DINES OUT-Theodora Du Bois -Houghton Mifflin ($2). Among a number of nice people summering at Jones Inlet near New York City, a surgeon-sleuth ferrets out a killer who uses poison at a dinner party. Merit: pleasant, painless and gossipy dialogue. Fault: a little too much dialogue about ladies' clothing...