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...British newspaper reader, like his American cousin, is an avid crossword-puzzle fan, but Britain's puzzles are as different from those in the U.S. as chess is from checkers. Most U.S. puzzles give clues that are at best merely obscure, e.g., "a device to fill the lower pane of a painted window" in six letters.† British fans expect their clues to be witty, ingenious, arch and wildly erudite...
...Attorney Richardson Dilworth, the case was clear-cut. Meade was shot, said he, by Virginia Carroll, who was with Meade at the time, and with whom he had been "arguing and drinking." Meade insisted the shot came from outside the hotel. But Dilworth offered as evidence a bullet-shattered pane of glass which, he said, FBI tests proved "conclusively" had been broken from the inside...
Columnist Selby, who specializes in digging up stories that others pass by (TIME, July 3, 1950), was far from convinced. The broken pane had a smear of paint on one side and heavy putty on the other, and police assumed the thick putty was on the outside. Selby checked the lobby windows, discovered each had the telltale paint smear on the outside and heavy putty on the inside. Last week he wrote that the bullet might have come from outside the hotel. After new tests Dilworth announced meekly: the tests "appear to absolve" Virginia Carroll. Said Bulletin Managing Editor Walter...
Wrong Buss. In Cairo, bidding farewell to his sweetheart, Moustafa Ibrahim, 16, kissed the pane of her train window, was fined $14 by a Moslem court for committing an "indecent public...
...short stories, A Long Fourth (1948), which was respectfully reviewed by most critics. With A Woman of Means, he shows a mastery of the short novel form, and a small, high-grade supply of creative content. Best of all, he writes a prose as clear as a fine pane of glass...