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...around, began talking to the man who addressed her. Then the night porter heard her scream: "Get him off me!" The porter and two other men rushed up, but too late. There on the floor at the foot of the stairs lay Christine Skarbek, heroine, a wooden-handled knife thrust in her chest...
Illustrious Name. The actual party leaders are no fiery Mussolinis but a couple of unexciting Fascist wheelhorses: Giorgio Almirante, head of the five-man M.S.I, bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, a thin, drab man with ferret eyes and a receding chin which he remembers to thrust out periodically; Secretary Augusto de Marsanich, who dotes on being remembered as one of the original squadristi who ''marched" on Rome...
...life, however, he at least practiced what he preached. He was an old-fashioned liberal who was never afraid to act. He worked tirelessly in behalf of the poor of Hull House, or crusaded for Sacco and Vanzetti, or thrust himself to the forefront of the fray wherever he spotted a Cause. "As the philosopher has received his problem from the world of action," he once wrote, "so he must return his account there for auditing and liquidation." Last week, John Dewey. long ill in his Manhattan apartment, finally settled his account. At 92, he left the world still growing...
...Cookson had never heard of the missing Musicians. He got the painting at a bargain when the owner died, then let it gather dust in his shop for ten years. After the war, he thrust it on an old customer, a retired British navy surgeon, Captain W. G. Thwaytes. "You can have it for ?200," he told Thwaytes. The captain said he had never paid ?200 for a picture. "Oh, go on," urged Cookson, "have it for ?100 [about $400 at the time]. I'm sure it's a genuine Caravaggio...
...four propellers, with a mighty thrust, churned up a boiling wake, and the great ship tore through the water at well over 30 knots with barely a tremor. Overheated bearings forced Commodore Manning to postpone the full-speed test. But some salts aboard estimated that at one time the ship was making about 35 knots, and would be capable of more with the engines full out. (The Queen Mary, current transatlantic champion, made her record run in 1938 at an average speed of 31.69 knots, hit a top full day's speed of 32.08.) Said Vice Admiral Edward...