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Five days after the Pilchard murder, Collick, famished and tattered, ran plump into the arms of police. He and the other prisoners were safely transported to Harford County jail, on the other side of Chesapeake...
Secretary Ickes' crab meat MIGHT have left him "wishing he hadn't eaten it," but for TIME to plump down the definite statement that it did is the cause for our comment...
...that its resolutions would label it more clearly than any Dies Committee investigation. Up for debate was Soviet Russia's invasion of Finland, a subject close to the hearts of the 400 convention delegates. One group, led by Leftist Herbert Witt of New York University, was eager to plump squarely for Soviet Russia. But the Union was deeply split, for many a "fellow traveler" had decided to travel no further. Among them: dark, energetic Joseph Lash, leader of the Union (executive secretary since it was founded) and friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, who defended him month ago from the charge...
...night Ben brought home a book of tickets for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. He told Frances, his daughter, to pick one, and they scraped together $2.50 to pay for it, wrote on it, "Just Must Win." Plump, 40-year-old Pearl prayed to God that they might...
Into an Indianapolis hospital, three years ago, interns carried a screaming two-year-old girl who had just fallen over backwards into a scalding tub of water. Her burns were not deep, but they stretched from her plump shoulders to her knees. She had a 1-to-3 chance to live...