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...victims, age one to 82, died during or soon after assaults with a variety of weapons, including a cane, a coat hanger, a belt, an electric cord and a shoe. Yet the physical injuries they suffered should not have killed them. Then, what did? The disparate group was culled by Pathologists Marilyn Cebelin and Charles Hirsch from a list of 497 assault cases that occurred in Cleveland between 1950 and 1979. After reviewing autopsy and police reports, tissue slides and hospital charts, the doctors report in Human Pathology that eleven of the 15 people had lesions in the heart similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Mar. 24, 1980 | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...magic would seem to lie in the way the trap lures mice to their doom without a particle of cheese or any other bait. The trap is just a little shorter than a shoe box and is made of galvanized sheet metal. The potential victim sees what appears to be a narrow tunnel open at both ends. Curiosity stirs. He enters. In the center of the box he hits a trip concealed in the floor of the tunnel. Whoosh, clatter, and a paddle sweeps the mouse into captivity. The Knesses have made a number of small changes in the original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iowa: The Mice Aren't Telling | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Plagued by foot and achilles tendon injuries, junior John Murphy was unable to perform up to his capabilities. Trailing from the start of the first leg, Murphy's problems were compounded when his heavily padded shoe fell off his injured leg midway through his half-mile effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Fail at NCAAs | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...Hampshire is mandatory, a rite of passage for unknowns and incumbent presidents alike. It gets real cold up there and snows a lot: the bones creak when you have to be up by six every morning to shake hands with stone-bored workers at some shoe factory...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Quadrennial Quest | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

More than a shoe repair store, Felix's sold newspapers and magazines of every kind, and even offered hat-cleaning, "back in the days when people wore hats...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Caragianes: A Voice for Cambridgeport | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

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