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They commented that Tsarapkin was a bit puzzled as to what the bird represented. First he thought it was a stork, but was assured when he was informed it was "a sort of American peace dove...
...help arrived, more than 300 were dead. Mothers were forced to watch as their children were decapitated by repeated blows of an ax. One woman saw the murderers slash her son's throat and drink his blood as he died. Among the charred remains, left for vulture and stork, police found bones so horribly mutilated that it was often impossible to tell which belonged to animals and which to men. All that was left of Chief Luka was his feet...
...Angeles Bureau Chief Bill Best was also in town, and Scofield invited him too. When Arcesi came on to sing his song, Model Ariel Edmundson sat at a front table by herself, decked out with clues from all over the U.S.-a swizzle stick from Manhattan's Stork Club, matches from Miami, a dress from San Francisco -but no mark of identification. Says Scofield: "I wanted to have something from each city so the papers would think she was a home-town girl...
...average man-but not so mysterious to those who feel the pressure of his vermiform "journalism." Of late weeks, he has been relentlessly worming away at a little-known Manhattan restaurant called Chandler's. According to Winchell, the place is a "gyp joint" run by gougers and chiselers. Stork Clubber Winchell has never been seen in Chandler's himself, but in the past three weeks he has extruded no less than twelve items, even repeating one attack three times. Last week Chandler's owners retorted with a $1,000,000 libel suit against Winchell, the Hearst Corp...
...over the U.S., magazine readers will see this month a full-page advertisement filled with close-set type and headed "The Land of Unborn Babies." After describing the scene from Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird, in which the unborn await the stork, the copy comes down to earth: "Thousands of babies die needlessly every year . . . The ground has hardly been broken for the nation's only safe foundation-healthy babies-each of whom must have its rightful heritage-an Even Chance-a healthy body...