Word: strangler
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Early Buzzards. In Norwood, Ohio, within 24 hours after Lee Dunn Jr. confessed to strangling his wife, police got five phone inquiries about renting the strangler's house...
...Chinese collapse (TIME, Feb. 8) looks ominous. You say that Jap blockades now are strangling China as the Central Powers were strangled in the World War. This is correct, but isn't there a possibility of alleviating this disastrous situation by a strong economic attack on the Jap strangler? The Chinese dollar has depreciated badly, and is partially dominated by the Japanese military yen in areas near the zones of occupation. Thus the perimeter of the flow of trade is from national China towards occupied China. By importing gold bullion from the U.S.'s oversupply and buying...
Quality Party. Like Commando troops, Rangers learn to skin up high trees, descend 200-ft. precipices on ropes, study the trade of the knife man and the strangler. To the newsmen visitors the training seemed to demand thugs and gangsters; but the British, who have tried that type, know better. "They never pan out-mostly yellow," said a Commando instructor...
...plot is standard stuff: two detectives try to prove that a seemingly, respectable man visiting undoubtedly respectable relatives is a widow-strangler from back East. The unusual and compelling thing about the picture is the tension set up as Theresa Wright slowly sees that her uncle, Joseph Cotten, is no god on wheels, but a pursued murderer...
...SIDEWALKS OF LONDON:--Chiefly notable for the performance of the pre-GWTW Vivien Leigh. Added attractions: views of pre-war London, lead performance by a post-prime Laughton, and a distinctly pre- (or post) Hayes office clinch involving Miss Leigh and "Strangler Rex" Harrison. Highly recommended for all Leigh fans,--and their name is legion...