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...Woman. Last fortnight members of the Michigan Society of Neurology and Psychiatry gathered to discuss the case, saw an amazing transformation. Neat and demure, the patient answered the psychiatrists' questions politely. She remembered her lurid past, but wanted to forget it. Said she: "I want to go home and lead a normal life." The hospital's report: "The patient is quite friendly, cooperative, seriously interested in the future, somewhat lacking in initiative but adequately responsive when approached. . . . Previous aggressive sexuality has apparently vanished...
...crowds arrived, streets and alleyways were littered with dead, and there were more to come. A young girl wriggled out of one blazing window on a sheet rope, started, catlike, toward an aerial ladder two floors below. Suddenly she lost her footing on the wall, turned gropingly in the lurid light and let go. "I knew she'd hit that marquee," muttered a spectator. Another body hit a wire over; the marquee, spun and hung by the neck for a moment, then plopped down...
...advertisers are concerned," he boomed. "We've thrown the truss boys, kidney-pill artists and goiter-curers out of the sheet, and have replaced them with such Class A advertisers as General Foods, Arm & Hammer and Sunshine Biscuits." (Last week's Parade also had a lurid full-page ad for a book bargain, Bachelor's Quarters and One of Cleopatra's Nights...
Third Generation. In the lurid brilliance of George Washington Hill, his associates, all hand-picked by himself, seemed pale. But the men who know tobacco best knew that the company had a handful of capable top men from which to pick a new president. Last week gossip narrowed down to vice presidents Paul M. Hahn, 51, and George Washington Hill...
Craig Rice based her 1944 book on the unreticent personalities of her own three children. A strong flavor of reality is retained in the movie. Three knowing youngsters, raised on lurid crime novels, would doubtless jump at a chance to furnish the real police with clues, red herrings, anonymous letters, innocent suspects, alibis and the rest of fictional murder's razzle-dazzle...