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...chill midnight of Friday the 13th, a band of the hardier villagers heaved the long grey slab back into place. Next morning the stone was all awry again. Across it, spelled out in faggots from a nearby oak, were the words: "Non in sum." Yokels gawked until a Latinizing G.I. translated: "Nobody home...
...prospector slammed down four bags of gold ore on a hotel bar and shouted: "You don't have to figure what this rock runs to the ton; it assays by the pound." At the O'Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point in four years...
...Mask of Dimitrios (Warners). When Cornelius Latimer Ley den (Peter Lorre), a writer of detective thrillers, first saw Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott), Dimitrios lay murdered on a slab in the Istanbul morgue (see cut). Scenting a story, Leyden decided to case Dimitrios' history...
Then the mass moved toward the improvised canteen-all except the quietly smiling stretcher cases-for a spread of precious tea, coffee, hot milk, pies, buns, slab chocolate and 10,000 sandwiches that the women of Edinburgh and Leith had frantically put together the night before. Some noticed that the prisoners reached first for white bread and newspapers...
...Santo di Poggioreale cemetery. For several years thereafter the cemetery's gatekeeper was reported to have done a rushing business in tips showing Caruso's body to visiting tourists. In the late '20s the Caruso family put a stop to the tourist traffic, caused a stout slab of marble to be placed over the tomb, locked up the chapel and sequestered...