Word: perfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goodyear blimp lazily circled over St. Louis day & night urging from banners and neon-lit signs: COME TO CLEVELAND IN 1936. Below, lighter spirits dragged a bed all over town invited ladies to try the mattress. Across it were the legends: CLEVELAND FOR A PERFECT '36-CURB SERVICE...
...trying to realize the Nazi dream of a perfect "Totalitarian State," Adolf Hitler has notably failed to bring to heel Germany's devout Protestant pastors and their congregations. So thoroughly has the Nazi Reich Bishop, blustering onetime Army Chaplain Luclwig Miiller, been frustrated in his efforts to dragoon these pastors into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered...
After nightfall, General Auchinleck sent his Indian sharpshooters up the sides of Khazana Sar, two battalions to a peak. It was a perfect frontier night, cold and clear with a half moon. In the valley the General waited. At dawn he heard his Indian rifles sniping back at the Haji's son's snipers. The honor of storming the Pass went to the white men of the Highland Light. They advanced in deployed formation while their batteries threw metal over the Pass...
...grapefruit grove, named it Coral Gables, prospered enough to send his son George north to college. Son George Merrick wrote verse, won a short story contest, abruptly abandoned his literary career when his father died in 1912. Returning to Florida, he became obsessed with the idea of building the perfect city on the site of the grapefruit grove. For ten years he slaved as a real estate dealer, accumulating capital. By the time the boom began he had 4,000 acres with a few roads and other improvements just started. Overnight he found himself one of the richest...
...Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final confession clears the last red herring...