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Last February at a railway station near Tours, Raymonde had lain flat on her face in the path of a slow-moving train loaded with tanks. When the engineer stopped his train a mob of Communists swarmed aboard, overpowered the guards, ripped batteries and wires out of the tanks. The train was held up for nine hours...
...foundations are now being completed in the excavation, which had lain untouched during the period of the hearings. Three laborers and two carpenters work on the project from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily, along with a steam shovel crew. The Niles Contractor Company of Newton is in charge of the construction. The church should be completed in nine months...
Chester Boddy (rhymes with crowed he) hoped to pick up the votes of any Democrats who thought Helen Douglas too much of a Fair Dealer and too stridently prolabor. In his earlier, more venturesome days, their political tracks might have lain confusingly closer: under Boddy the News had once trafficked in some odd political nostrums...
Pods on the Stream. Almost since it was written, in 1824, this grim, mocking little book has lain like a corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above...
After the court recessed last June, Wiley Rutledge took his family to Maine for a vacation. There he learned of the death of his close colleague, Frank Murphy (TIME, Aug. 1). And there, last week, in a tiny hospital at York Village where he had lain for eight days in a periodic coma, Wiley Blount Rutledge, 55, died of cerebral hemorrhage...