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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paths of Life, showing one youth embarking on a career of virtue, illustrated by chaste and busy maidens on one side of the picture, while another youth started out on a course of licentiousness, dramatized by fetchingly nude ladies and assorted revelers on the other (and considerably larger) side of the work...
...Last week at the 38th International Motor Show in London's cavernous Earls Court, British automen put in their biggest bid for the booming '"baby" market. On display, along with such sporty models as the low-slung Singer SMX, went the new Standard Eight ($956) and a larger, more powerful version of the Ford Anglia ($1,008). Feature of the show: the two cheapest production cars in the world. One was the Austin A30, a two-door, four-cylinder, 30-h.p, model costing $938. The other was the Ford Popular, a four-seater austerity model of the Anglia...
...Hall scrambled up from a hiding place under the bridge. He put the bag in the station wagon parked in a thicket near by. Bonnie Heady, he said later, was sprawled "in an alcoholic stupor" in the car. Hall did not wait round to count the money-three times larger than any ransom ever paid in the U.S. He never did get around to counting...
Churchill played two roles, and his audience loved him in both. To the party, he was Old Tory, bucolic and patriotic, quick to boot Socialist backsides and to chuck the British voter under the chin. The other Churchill looked larger, more visionary and controversial. He was the great Britannic Moses, sharing his wisdom with the benighted, urging them to follow where...
...suspect that the 40 beauties had met a fate in the cave that was really worse than death. Further study of the skeletons confirmed the suspicion. Each shapely skull had a hole in it, and conical stone axheads found in the debris fitted the holes exactly. Most of the larger arm and leg bones had been broken to extract the marrow. That settled it. The 40 lovely girls, agreed learned Bambergers, had been eaten in the cave...