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...since taking over from his Uncle Thomas, then went to bed in the prison library. At 6 Joyce rose and washed, but did not bother to shave. At the gallows Pierrepoint was waiting. Round the neck of the frozen-faced traitor, he expertly draped the noose. Then he sprang the trap...
Henry Lamar had nicer things to say about Pierce at the Boston Sportswriters' Luncheon yesterday at the Kenmore Hotel. As everybody knows, Chet suffered a minor leg fracture in the Tufts game and missed every succeeding game until Dick Harlow sprang him at New Haven...
...were sere again with the late summer heat. Sidetracked freight cars still bore the familiar slogans on their red sides: The Route of Phoebe Snow, The Katy, The Southern Serves the South. Leaves were turning yellow in the high valleys of the Rocky Mountains. In the Southwest, mirages still sprang up along the roads and the horizon bloomed with the dust of distant plowing...
...angry executioner slapped the traitor's face, sprang the trap...
...Joseph Stalin got along strikingly well. Stalin's dislike of Winston Churchill and his long-winded speeches was never more apparent. Once, when Churchill voiced a detailed bill of complaint against Russian plundering in southeastern Europe, Stalin merely grunted; his interpreter said that he had no comment. Truman sprang up, said that he had investigated the British charges and was prepared to substantiate them. Stalin twinkled, pointedly replied: "I will believe the Americans...