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...York City, on the Williamsburg Bridge, was found a section of a woman's thigh. It had been cut by some one apparently skilled in surgery. Police searched the bridge, found two bloodstained newspapers but nothing else. Said Deputy Inspector George Bishop: "Looks like another Ludwig Lee murder...
...wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose an army of mice is offensive to national dignity" (TIME, July 21). Canadian censors ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only a form of public testimony that Mickey Mouse and other animated cartoons are an important and permanent element of international amusement. Sergei Eisenstein, famed Russian director, has said: "They are America's most original contribution to culture...
...make ends meet by playing the races. She got to be a well-known figure at the tracks but made no killing. Retired to a cheap French pension she outlived her poodle Babe, but not for long. The Author. Hearty Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) loves words like "thigh" and "sausage." Born in Hamilton, Ohio (near Cincinnati) 41 years ago, she grew up in St. Louis, now lives in Manhattan. Never destitute, she has acted as saleswoman, waitress, has traveled steerage, visited Soviet Russia to get material. Long and often the recipient of editors' rejection-slips...
...into the students' or tutors' quarters. For the privilege of living in either of the House Masters' residences many a scholar would be sorely tempted to sign away his soul in the Black Man's Book. Imagine having for your study a room finished in dark oak panelling, cupboards thigh high, and book shelves on up to the ceiling, with chimneypiece to match-all flooded with sunshine from the spacious are of a bow window. The House Master's residence at Dunster fronts the river. In Lowell House the Master is not so lucky, but the architects have consoled...