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...more reporters and photographers who covered the story, the assignment was simple and harrowing. Reporters picked out handy telephones, photographers found good angles, glued their fingers to camera triggers-and waited (see cut). Nightfall meant the complication of flash bulbs for photographers, a more lurid scene for excited spectators who bought binoculars and made bets on whether Warde would jump. Most spectacular shots were caught by Associated Press Cameraman Harold Harris (Warde, arms akimbo, plummeting past the sixth floor of the hotel), and Acme Cameraman Charles Haacker (Warde toppling from the hotel marquee, police scurrying...
...years some of the world's most lurid, blood-curdling "true-story" prison tales have come out of experiences, real and embellished, gained in France's famed penal colony in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America. Horror stories deluxe have told of men working stark naked in the sizzling tropical jungle, of lust, greed, murder, homosexuality in prison cages crammed with killers, rapists, thieves. Other tales have told of years of maddening isolation in "bear pits" on one of the three Iles du Salut (variously translated as "Safety Isles" and "Isles of Salvation...
This imposing little questionnaire, introduced in the House last week by California's liberal young Byron Nicholson Scott, provided Washington with a brief but lurid display of political fireworks against the cloudy sky of international relations...
...profound and sympathetic student of Manhattan womanhood, Author Leaf also discusses such feminine concerns as the price of stockings and the number of pairs a girl needs, without giving his book a housewifely air, although he occasionally seems slightly embarrassed by such topics. And although he paints no lurid pictures of big-city sin, he mentions a few tricks and warns girls away from a few professions in a casual and unexcited fashion...
...singled out Radcliffe College for attack. The vituperative pen of a Greater Boston preacher managed to magnify the serving of sherry at a meeting of the Radcliffe Auxiliary into a drunken carousal; but investigation shows two important facts were overlooked in making these accusations, facts which dim the lurid spotlight thrown on an innocent gathering...