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...France things are different. Under sentence of death in Paris last week lay a surly, silent 19-year-old girl named Violette Nozières. Not since 1887, when Jeanne Thomas was executed for burning up her mother in the fireplace, had a Frenchwoman paid the supreme penalty for murder. French juries are notoriously tender with wives who murder their husbands, but Violette Nozières was no wife. A spoiled brat with a fondness for nightclubs and loose living, she succeeded, after many attempts, in poisoning her father, a railway engineer, and her mother. Then she turned...
...Violette Nozières was too hasty in calling for aid, for her mother was not quite dead when the ambulance arrived. The girl stole 1,500 francs from her dead father's wallet and spent a riotous week in Montmartre bistros, living successively with a German, a Negro, an Egyptian. She broke with each in turn when he expressed the hope that the police would catch the murderess about whom all the papers were writing. Finally a young student recognized her from her published photographs, turned her over to the police...
...Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like riding '"outlaw" horses and roping cattle, were tests of cowboys' ability to perform their chores. Spectacular frills arrived later. A Negro cowboy named Bill Pickett introduced steer-wrestling some 25 years ago, dared his confrères to copy it. In addition to freakish specialties like milking wild cows, last week's world series rodeo included also a mounted basketball game, in which a team of cowboys challenged all-comers; performances by stunt horses; a juvenile chariot race; singing of hillbilly songs rarely heard except by radio...
...committee were trying to prove was that, though the du Ponts disparage the munitions side of their businesses, they are not at all anxious to let it lapse, frequently encourage the same kind of unscrupulous sales tactics used by their smaller U. S. and greater European confréres...
More impressive if not more efficient than any of his confrčres was a 200-lb., 6-ft. 3-in. Czechoslovakian named Roderick Menzel, who plays in long shorts and woolen socks that come up almost to his knees. A minor poet and novelist in Prague, Menzel began to play tennis seriously eight years ago. Although he liked it much less than soccer, he soon contrived to be his country's No. 1 player. This season he carried Perry to five sets at Wimbledon and beat Crawford in the European Zone Davis Cup final. If Perry, the defending champion, plays...