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British police who have spent the past year vainly trying to keep Palestine's Jews and Arabs from each other's throats were faced with a new poser last week. In a shallow grave in an orange grove near Tel Aviv was discovered the moldering body of Jacob Zwanger, onetime Soviet Vice-Commissar of Harbors for the Black Sea region. The police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gunrunner and onetime salesman for the late munitions tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house...
...shall have the right to say to whom American ship operators must entrust their ships. Employers believe that the owners should have this right. To resume negotiations under current circumstances would be useless." This attitude Harry Lundeberg termed "arbitrary and unreasonable." Thus last week the situation remained the old poser: what happens when the irresistible meets the immovable...
Long study at the scene of the com- poser's activities and deep research into local and personal records have resulted in an account as detailed as a novel and written in much the same manner. Kaufman was fortunate in the choice of a subject for this style of writing since his principal character fits exactly into the mould which would be chosen by a romatic author...
...years Columbia's Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes has dangled this poser before his freshman class in mathematics. Prize for solution, by solid geometry only, was an automatic A in the course. Fifteen flights of freshmen were baffled until this term when one Herman Gewirtz of Brooklyn slapped down a solution complete in 50 steps, plus drawings...
...sister Dorothy, who was falling clear of any possible support, with his legs, squeezed her in a scissors till the ground crew brought a net to catch her in. Then he dropped her to safety, not realizing that he had strangled her unconscious. She revived and is still top poser on her brothers' rickety framework...