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Pity, or what Scobie thinks of as pity, proceeds inexorably to destroy him. A young girl, survivor of a torpedoed ship, is carried into his life on a stretcher, and rather than let her innocence be corrupted by a promiscuous R.A.F. pilot, Scobie becomes her adulterous protector. Blackmailed by the Syrian loan-shark, Scobie, who cannot bear to let his wife suffer, buys off the Syrian by helping him to smuggle diamonds through the British blockade...
...terrible shape. His manager tried questions again and got only a thick-tongued reply: "All I know is I'm fighting in Milwaukee." Then Darthard began tossing crazily on his stool and complaining that his head ached. He slumped over, mumbling incoherrently. They put him on a stretcher and carried him, unconscious, into a dressing room...
...smoked it out was Carl Estes, oilman, publisher, and one of the principal Lone Star organizers. Ailing Mr. Estes was brought to the meeting on a stretcher. While his doctor plied him with pills, he read off a ten-page blast at management for selling pig iron to outsiders at little more than half the Texas market price. Who were the buyers? Why were these money-losing deals made...
...last time John Harvard went south, he came back on a stretcher. Next week in the person of four teams, he heads for Dixie again and if the Crimson squads win seven contests among them, John will have escaped with his scalp...
Shame on TIME for missing a beat on that Marie McDonald item [TIME, Dec. 22]. The sweater-stretcher lady told the reporter that he ought to see her mother's figure. What about us TIME readers...