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...Murray and I murdered the woman alone," he shouted. "This was an act I am willing to pay for and I know I will burn. . . ." Cullen, the unsuccessful thief, sat mum throughout the trial. His life too was at stake, but his show of emotion was limited: a couple of times he sneezed a little...
...Castroviejo at week's end examined Ortiz' eye, but remained prudently mum. Those sectors of the Argentine press which are desperately anxious to drag Argentina into the war hailed the doctor as a "mir-acle man." Finally the honest surgeon cried: "I'd like to get a change of scene, hide out in a nightclub somewhere, but even that's impossible here...
...West, and other who are equally busy in these troubled times, must make patriotism real and functional. It isn't until one uses deodorants "under arms for a nation under arms" that the term so flatly defined by Mr. Webster takes on true meaning. It is only when the Mum Company asks: "Are you your own fifth columnist? Do you sabotage your personal attractiveness with underarm perspiration on short wave broadcasts?" that the word becomes utterly challenging...
Best bet in the Republican Senate race is another big man, cold, close-mouthed Harlan J. Bushfield, 59, present Governor, who stands a craggy 6 ft. 2, weighs 195. Though mum about foreign affairs for the last year, Bushfield dislikes Willkie liberalism, in 1940 aspired to run for Vice President behind Ohio's Robert A. Taft. Dictator of the machine he built, Bushfield's main distinction is a record for economy in tax reductions. He might have had a clear field but for the determined person of his Secretary of State, Olive A. Ringsrud...
...figuring and filling an income-tax form. And the U.S. forces need good officer material as badly as the Treasury needs money. The Army in March announced that it needed 75,000 officers this year "for the ground forces alone," thousands more for other jobs. The Navy has kept mum on actual figures, nevertheless grabs officers wherever it can find them-even among college sophomores...