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Into Colorado's new lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby in a cell sat William Cody Kelley, shifty-eyed farmhand. Refused clemency, he prayed quietly for his pretty 23-year-old wife, his 4-month-old baby. Unable to finance an appeal, he was to be the first man executed in Colorado without a review of his case...
...Duranty was at his elbow. If any one man could be said to have reconciled Capitalist U. S. and Communist Russia, Duranty is the man. Critics have accused him of being no newshawk but a dove of peace who from long association with Soviet eagles has become their carrier pigeon. But unbiased readers of Duranty Reports Russia will agree that on the whole Duranty has done a difficult job objectively and well. From the twelve-year files of his dispatches to the Times his good friend Gustavus Tuckerman Jr., New York University instructor, has selected enough...
...Indic Philology would then no longer exist quite so much for the benefit of one student to the exclusion of all the potential intermediate beneficiaries. However, the most effective method of accomplishing this result in its entirely would be to stock the library with surplus examination papers, providing appropriate pigeon holes or boxes for them. True, the unbound papers would not wear so well as the present books, but this fact would automatically assure that obsolescence and retirement would go hand in hand, while the files would be steadily replenished by the inexorable rhythm of examinations. Thus students and university...
...onetime Socialist-editor of The Nation, Paul Blanshard, who has lately distinguished himself as director of a civic committee. As helper he will have a 31-year-old lawyer, Irving Ben Cooper, who became one of Samuel Seabury's favorite aids because he unearthed the sleazy Tammany stool pigeon whose trick was to make honest women look like prostitutes...
Joker. Not tragicomic, but like a pathetic and futile story by Morley Callaghan. was last week's tale of Alice Kenny Schiffer Diamond. She married Jack ("Legs") Diamond (a consumptive gunman who was destined to be gangland's clay pigeon before he died), in 1917 after he had deserted the Army...