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...leaders of Russia were, in effect, carrying away the pile of faggots which Stalin had prepared for victims still to be found, in a purge that would have a long time to run. At the proper time, the new leaders would have burnings of their own, but they preferred to choose their own method and timing...
...Pile of Bones. Englishmen took in the gruesome details of the latest crime avidly, but with a practiced palate-it was, both in its profusion of corpses and in certain other characteristics, so very like London. Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer...
Since Little's days are constantly occupied with personal meetings and telephone conversations, he rarely has enough time to attend to his paper work. But with persistent optimism he assures his secretary that the six-inch pile of letters on his desk each morning will be answered by dinner time. When 5 o'clock rolls around and the pile is no smaller than it was when he walked in that morning, he smiles and says, "Well, you know, we've just got to get that stuff out of the way tomorrow...
McGraw, disgusted that his partners "couldn't see over a pile of manure," split with them and took the streetcar magazine with him. Later, he met John Hill, onetime locomotive engineer who owned five trade papers (American Machinist, Power, Engineering News, Coal Age, Engineering and Mining Journal). Both McGraw and Hill had also started publishing books; in 1909 they formed a joint book-publishing firm. Eight years later, after Hill died, his estate sold out his magazines and book interests to McGraw...
Mono Lisa's Smile. From his briefcase dour West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer produced a pile of secret German intelligence documents describing the military build-up of Russia and its satellites; he listed fact & figure evidence of "the tragic disparity" between Eastern power and Western ability to resist it. "I have been watching these things for many years," warned Adenauer, "and I must say there has never been a threat so great from the East. There is no time to lose...