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...technique used involved a specially contrived hocked instrument, which "fished" the $90 note out through the slit. This method, he conjectured, would be particularly effective if the check rested on a stack of Christmas cards and other uncollected Yuletide communications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FBI, Postmen Still Stumped By Holiday GI Check Thefts | 1/7/1947 | See Source »

...Detroit's Mt. Carmel Hospital, surgeons crowded around operating tables for the show. One of them deftly slit open a patient's abdomen and explored the cavity. In an outburst of surgeon's humor, a colleague boomed: "Now watch him botch it; never fails to mess it up when he tries to show off." (But the operation, a clinic demonstration, was a success.) Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sawbones Get Together | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Diehard. In Kansas City, John Davis tried unsuccessfully to end it all by 1) swallowing iodine; 2) taking merthiolate; 3) sticking his head into a gas stove; 4) shooting himself in the head; 5) drowning himself in the bathtub; was about to slit his throat when police arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Died. Primula Rollo Niven, 28, pretty ex-WAAF war bride of British Cinemactor David Niven (who met her in a slit trench during an air raid); of a head injury (suffered in a tumble down unlighted stairs); in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Early one morning in 1944, a flight of German dive bombers swooshed down on the headquarters of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia. Sane Britons dashed for the slit trenches. At that moment, there appeared on a hilltop, in full view of the enemy, and dressed (as a further aid to marksmanship) in a white coat, an unruffled British officer. He was Royal Horse Guards Captain Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with awe), whose seventh novel is the Book-of-the-Month Club's January choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fierce Little Tragedy | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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