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Back down to the Pied Piper, where Maxie Kaminsky, Jimmy Johnson, Willie Smith, et al, still play the best Dixieland in the City and pack the bistro nightly ... Frankie Newton was bending an elbow at the bar and we adjourned to his apartment to admire his paintings ... No kidding, Frankie is doing some fine stuff and the Southern Comfort was fine... Newt has left George's but plays every Tuesday at the Pied Piper...
...Illinois Criminal Investigation Laboratory sent an investigator named Richard T. Piper to Mattoon to get the pink cloth from Mrs. Cordes' porch. The laboratory could find no indications of gas or other chemicals upon it. Piper sat up all night reading chemistry books and announced the next day that the anesthetist was probably using chloropicrin, a heavy, colorless liquid made by chlorinating picric acid...
French guerrillas popped up with everything from Italian pistols to ancient hunting rifles. Wrote TIME Correspondent Will Lang: "Maquis patriots swarmed to the advancing Americans like children to the Pied Piper. They came on cycles trailing little wagons, on horse-drawn carts, in wood-burning busses to which they had hitched draft animals when the engines quit. All men of all ages were armed and burning for the revenge for which they had waited for years...
...aeronautical engineer and a lieut. commander in the British Admiralty as well as an experienced writer (Ordeal, Pied Piper), Author Shute makes his conventional story more than just readable, with exciting scenes of air combat, much pastoral warmth and charm...
...U.S.C. veterans do not expect the university to turn itself inside out for them. Just a little understanding of their special problems would do, they think. For instance, 27-year-old Walter Piper, who wears a black glove because he lost his right arm on New Guinea, wishes some of his professors would not be so impatient with his slow note-taking. His left hand is not yet very handy with a pencil. And 21-year-old Marvin Niles, who is slow too, wishes the professor would remember that the German land mine which shredded and scarred...