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...were gathering for last week's festival of Shaab-e-Baraat when the sorrowful news crackled from houseboat to houseboat, from hut to hut. The guard on duty at Hazrat Bal (literally Majestic Place) had left his post long enough for thieves to saw out the strongroom locks, smash the cabinet and make their getaway. The prophet's hair was gone...
...that the highly publicized examples raise the average size of all awards and settlements. What bothers the underwriters more than the occasional big payoff is the widespread evidence of fraud. In one macabre conspiracy, a Los Angeles man arranged to have a friend push his car off a cliff, smash both his legs with a padded brick, and place him and his drugged wife beside the wreck. "No one would ever believe that I was crazy enough," boasted the man; the plot was uncovered-and the conspirators jailed-only because his friend got frightened and called the sheriff...
However, Toronto rallied in the next round of play to smash B.C., 9-1, in a thriller which included two fist fights...
...world. But then came the doubles, and the U.S. team victimized Neale Fraser, 30, who had been called out of retirement to pair with Emerson. Keeping the ball away from Emerson, the Americans gave Fraser cut shots and lobs. Taunted beyond endurance, he wound up to smash one lob-and missed completely. McKinley and Ralston won handily-and took a 2-1 lead...
...Broadway. Hart was a shrewd, witty, candid and flamboyant theater man. As played on the screen by George Hamilton, he seems reserved, artless, uncertain. The movie audience is asked to imagine him as the boy wonder who collaborated with Writer-Director George S. Kaufman on the 1930 comedy smash, Once in a Lifetime. It's hard...