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...last week. "We were young and silly then. Sticht had joined our gang later and we didn't trust him." At Werner's orders, Sticht was lured to a lonely house and shot in the back of the neck; then the kids hid his body in a pile of rubble. That was murder...
...fire to his hut, and hangs himself. An unmarried girl becomes pregnant, has an abortion and dies. Her half-sister turns prostitute and plays informer to both the Fascists and the partisans; she winds up in front of a machine gun and her body is burned in a brush pile. In 1950, at the age of 42, Author Pavese confirmed his bleak views of the human situation by committing suicide...
...been provided to mark the finish. By some feverish activity with a penknife and a hammer a suitable flag was hurried together from a piece of canvas and a lath. And when the tide changed, the judges' barge itself began to drift downstream, so that between races the pile of crates which constituted the judges' stand had to be moved bodily from one end of the barge to the other...
Last week Northlake's police chief, Fred Heck, called on his friend Raboski, asked him to come down to the police station for an important conference. At the station, the policeman handed Raboski a pile of papers, including the photograph, fingerprints and police record of Cornelius Pytsch of California. After a few minutes, the police chief broke the uncomfortable silence. "Are you that man?" he asked...
...point for the year. Down with it went the rail and utility averages. Investors sold not only because they were worried over economic adjustments which peace in Korea might bring; they also began to jitter-with little cause-that the vast outpourings of civilian goods would soon pile up big surpluses and bring cutbacks in production...