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...finding in London, just before Sir Bernard left, of a pair of legs in a suitcase left at King's Cross Station which proved to be the legs of the Brighton torso. As he went to work Sir Bernard Spilsbury preserved the Sherlock Holmes tradition of keeping mum, but he had his Dr. Watson in Chief Detective Pelling. The sole clue seemed to be that both legs and torso were wrapped in the same sort of brown wrapping paper and on the paper around the torso appeared the letters "f o r d.'' Chief Detective Pelling titillated...
...months the Midwest has cringed under a reign of terror. For every kidnapping and extortion reported in the Press, perhaps a dozen others went unrecorded as respectable citizens had their first terrifying contact with crime and kept mum about it. Last week a new chapter in the history of Midwest crime was being forced upon them, a chapter less terrifying to most men individually, but one that reached unmatched heights of daredevil ruthlessness. It was the third chapter in the career of Desperado John Dillinger...
...unable to identify as the Treasury the building in which "dollars and quarters grow." Taken on Grandfather's yacht to Mount Vernon, he succeeded in ripping great tears in his patriotic suit. Scheming to get a new suit he crawled into Grandmother's knitting bag, kept mum when she took it and him away on a flying trip. High in the air Scamper's paws went to sleep. When he moved, he was discovered as a stowaway. Grandmother, distressed at his torn clothes, converted a partially finished green sweater into a rabbit jacket before the trip...
...with both, unmasked the second bandit. His companion dropped his revolver, pulled out a hammer swaddled in a towel. Publisher McGraw dodged, then prudently subsided. They bound & gagged him, took $90 from his coat pocket, escaped. Released by a porter. Publisher McGraw gruffly told newshawks: "I wanted it kept mum, because I'm not much of a hero. I'm a very modest young fellow...
When the Government announced the lucky numbers in the second drawing last week, most of the new winners kept mum. Since the Government exempts National Lottery winnings from the income tax and publishes winning numbers but not winning names, their secret was their own. Going to the Government bureaus to collect their prize money, many winners loitered for a time with the crowd pretending to wait for news, finally eased in through the door. When they emerged, they covered their faces with their hands to foil photographers, raced panic-stricken for cover. When 16 Frenchmen became franc millionaires...