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After Göring's suicide, elaborate theories blossomed. Samples: the poison capsule was hidden in his pipe stem, in a small abdominal incision, in a tooth, in the binding of a book. Dizziest theory of the lot was that Göring faked the gurgling sounds of pain which first attracted the guard to his cell; thereupon the guard summoneJ the doctor, who then administered the poison...
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, now a gaffer of 79, emerged briefly from latter-day obscurity when a news photographer snapped him at a Cambridge University ceremony. Only faintly discernible now were the once famed features of England's burly, pipe-smoking Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...Boer War correspondent, a Negro gambler, an unbadged police lieutenant, a disillusioned anarchist-they had been reduced by rotgut to creatures of one baggy shape. What kept them hanging by a claw to life was the kindness of the drunken-bum saloonkeeper (finely played by Dudley Digges), and their pipe dreams, their mumbling that tomorrow would turn up a winning card or bring forth a better...
...Gamson) had to pay a $5 fine for shooting craps, but nothing ever came of his six arrests for suspicion of robbery. He had a little routine trouble with a tough local competitor named Mickey Cohen. One night he hammered Mickey's skull with a piece of lead pipe, but the quarrel never got really serious...
...were labor leaders, who had also dreamed of big earnings from the big demand for labor. This month A.F.L. told members that they would lose as much as they gained by further wage increases. C.I.O. leaders admitted that the idea of wage increases without price increases was a pipe dream...