Word: killers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the British Museum to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology has come the fifteen-foot skeleton of a False Killer whale, a species known to science until fifteen years ago only by its fossilized skull...
Since then it has been found singly from India to Norway, but in 1927 a group of over one hundred turned up on the northeast coast of Scotland, where the Harvard specimen was recovered. False Killers have the great teeth of the real Killer and live on cuttle fish, but their dorsal fins are much smaller...
...French Government for 48 hours suppressed films of King Alexander's assassination. All U. S. newsreel syndicates had their films snatched at Cherbourg or Le Bourget, air field. When pressure from French public opinion grew too strong, the Government released in France a carefully cut version. It showed Killer Georgieff on the running board of King Alexander's car but suppressed footage proving that he got there with the greatest of ease because the police cordon was scandalously inadequate...
...ships. Meanwhile Fox Movietone had received word that their films, aboard S. S. George Washington, were apparently the best. They showed more clearly than others the smart sabre work of Lieut.-Colonel Piollet as he slashed down Georgieff. Also Fox cameramen were alone in getting unobstructed pictures of the killer on the running board as he blazed away. To beat all rivals to Manhattan, Fox decided to risk sending a $50,000 plane out to try to pick up their film from the George Washington 600 miles...
Police who swarmed over Northfield's campus last week had no trouble reconstructing the murder-someone lurked on a macadam path outside the study until Headmaster Speer stood up, then fired a shotgun pointblank through the window. But of weapon, killer or motive they could find no trace...