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...buried their bodies in her garden"). The commissioner got on the trail, arrested Madame Célestine Camille Martin, a 57-year-old pianist and World War I widow. Unable to make a living as a pianist, she had tried as best she could to eke out her meager 7,000 franc ($20) monthly pension. Last week a Paris court sentenced her to eight months in prison. The prospect of jail did not alarm the pink raven. Said she: "At last...
...half-million blacks are compelled to live in "locations," segregated from the white residential areas. White growth has pushed the locations farther & farther away from the center of the city, so that the blacks have to travel miles each day to & from work. Transport costs eat into their meager wages; most black workers have to rise at 4 a.m. to reach their work at 8, and do not get back home until 8 or 9 in the evening...
...Nationalism" is an equally irrelevant term. Since their destruction and partition in 1945, the "Reich" and the "nation" have simply not been realities to the Germans. The very meager successes of the noisy "nationalist" parties signify more protest against existing economic inadequacies than passion for a political ideal...
Farmer Morton took his blue-eyed son from doctor to doctor, dipping deep into his meager savings. Finally Donald's illness was diagnosed: subdural hydroma, or water on the brain, usually the result of a head injury that tears the tissue surrounding the brain, allowing cerebro-spinal fluid to become pocketed under the parchment-like membrane between skull and brain. An operation to relieve the pressure was unsuccessful...
...jockeys and shortly thereafter in record shops, selling an estimated 25,000 copies a day. Hot on Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words. Among those on sale by this week: Red Foley (Decca), Herb Jeffries (Coral), Vaughan Monroe (Victor), Bing Crosby (Decca...