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Allergists live in a topsy-turvy world where bread is often not the staff of life but an insidious poison, where milk can do the baby more harm than a slug of liquor, where innocent-looking eggs are the secret agents of rebellion, and where mother love can choke a child. Last week the American College of Allergists met in Chicago to hear the latest reports from topsy-turvydom...
...Have Quiet." The Brewerytowners were still restive, but "Enforcer" Matyasevic took care of that: during one argument, he shot a Brewerytowner in the leg to cool him off and then accommodatingly dug out the slug with a razor blade. After that, the gang got down to more serious work. Last week five of them drove to a taproom in a stolen sedan. "Blackie" Battles, the lad who had been shot by the enforcer, stood outside with a high-powered rifle. One waited in the car, and the rest walked inside holding .32-cal. pistols...
...Pile of Bones. Englishmen took in the gruesome details of the latest crime avidly, but with a practiced palate-it was, both in its profusion of corpses and in certain other characteristics, so very like London. Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer...
Headstrong. In Painesville, Ohio, William Marut, after wondering for weeks what had hit his head New Year's Eve, finally got around to showing the bump to a doctor, who found a .22 slug embedded in his scalp...
Radcliffe's Choral Society and the Williams Glee Club will slug in a free joint concert in Paine Hall at 8:15 p.m. tonight...