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Nick Charles reluctantly interrupts his drinking this time when guests of harumphing Colonel Burr McFay (C. Aubrey Smith) are awakened by a shot to find that the old man's throat has been cut. Suspect are various heirs and retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who has perfected the cutest blackmailing trick of the year. He dreams twice that people die. If he dreams it a third time they do. So he assesses people to keep him from dreaming. By the time Nick has spent a quiet week catching the murderer, he has had a knife...
...Adamic, Hamilton Basso, John Chamberlain, Waldo Frank) sent a committee to Tri-State to study the health of the miners. Among the committee members: Economist James Raymond Walsh of Hobart College, Sociologist Esther Lucile Brown of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Adelaide Helen Ross Smith, Manhattan silicosis expert, Socialite Sheldon Dick, Manhattan photographer...
...Crimson line, Soule at right guard, Tudor Gardiner at left right guard, and Wood at left tackle will feel the brunt of the Dartmouth attack. John Dimeff and Sears hold down the starting end posts and Sheldon Dietz is entrenched in the center post...
Other Cambridge residents have already received awards for this year are as follows: Bernard Barger '39, won a Sheldon Prize Fellowship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Lewis Dexter, Harvard A.B. '32, M.D. '36, won a William Hunter Workman Scholarship at the Harvard Medical School; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, was named a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, on a three-year term; Herbert E. Wright Jr. '39, won the George H. Emerson Scholarship at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...announcing the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee's decision to quash the investigation, Senator Connally of Texas wisecracked: "We've just dry-cleaned Joe." == Call for this inquiry arose from stories written by top-flight Reporter Marquis Childs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey told the Senate he was "sure" Childs had "received other compensation for sending that story out than that which he receives from his regular employer," added that the same was "no doubt" true of Miss Sheldon. For these remarks Senator Guffey could...