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...racketeers. Back in Prohibition days Frankie Madison (Paul Kelly) had taken the rap and gone up the river for 14 years. His partner (Luther Adler) has grown rich and respectable, with the help of Frankie's dough, operating a swank supper club. Frankie, getting out of stir, thinks the partnership still exists. When he sniffs the truth, he thinks it is still 1930-that the tough guy who took the rap is more than a match for the smoothie who took his dough. But the tough guy hasn't a chance...
...left in her wake such a tumult of debate. The public had heard her called everything from whore to angel. Now Biographer Frances Winwar (who changed her own name from Vinciguerra) has retold the story of George Sand with a tenderness, knowledge and enthusiasm that are likely to stir up the old debate and make The Life of the Heart a bestseller...
Tied to the stake, Laval stood facing the rifle points. "Vive la France," he cried. The volley sent a chilly stir through the prison building...
...Penicillin can be given in ice cream. Doctors at the San Diego Naval Training Center, treating sore throat, scarlet fever and trench mouth, stir penicillin into soft ice cream, put the mixture in paper cups and refreeze it in a refrigerator tray. The ice cream preserves the drug, disguises its bitter taste, and slips easily down babies and other difficult patients...
...Archbishop had also made a social stir. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and full of dignity, berobed in the black garb and silver chain ofj his churchly office, he cut a figure unique among modern statesmen. He impressed London hostesses by his great appetite for oriental pilaff (his aides cornered the dwindling London rice stocks), his fine Greek cigarets, the quantities of boiling Turkish coffee he consumed. He rode majestically through London's streets in a Rolls-Royce provided by the British Government. Finally, again by air, he had flown off to Paris and a royal Gallic welcome. Then...