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Last June Chicago police rounded up many a middleman, announced that they had smashed a "million dollar" arson ring. Three weeks ago they decided to tidy up the last stray clue by picking up fat Bertha, whose only connection with the case seemed to be that her son-in-law had been arrested. Much to their surprise, she began to talk. Last week she was still talking, spouting a voluble stream of names, addresses, dates, fees...
...cellar of a house in Baltimore one day last week a tiny black spider dangled listlessly from its web, waiting for a stray fly. No fly appeared, but across the cold floor slithered a 12-inch garter snake, foraging for food. Forked tongue flashing, the snake darted into the sticky spider web, got caught, quickly found itself trapped. The householder discovered what was going on in his cellar, began to watch. All that day and all that night the snake wriggled and twisted. Into the cellar next day flocked neigh bors to see the battle. The snake flipped and flopped...
...twelfth day the skinny white mongrel rolled over, struggled to its front feet, barked a dismal bark. In a moment it crumpled up, but young Dr. Robert E. Cornish was delighted. Two other stray terriers which he had killed and revived in his University of California laboratory had died again for good and all within a few hours (TIME, March 26). But after being quite dead-heart stopped, breath stopped, eyes glazed-for four minutes on Friday, April 13, Dog No. 3 had been brought back to live day after day. This apparent miracle had been worked by means...
...chatted with students, educators, relief workers and Girl Scouts, addressed a convention of insurance agents, made a radio speech, then got up before 4,000 citizens to talk on her assigned subject of "Teachers and Their Proper Preparation." But she had warned conference sponsors beforehand that she would probably stray off her topic, since she seldom writes speech or notes. "I just speak," said...
...doors away Pascal Oldham, 78, hardware merchant, was locking up his store when he turned to see a car flash by, to hear guns crackle. A stray bullet drilled clean through his head. Hours later he died in a hospital...