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...apparently in desperation, on the slim chance that the butcher-murderer would show himself when he learned that his punishment would be so light. Reason for their desperation was that last week's dismembered body was the eighth that had been found in Cleveland since September 1934, when Torso No. 1, also that of an unknown female, similarly butchered, was found at the same spot. The other six-five males, one female-all dismembered, only two of them identified -were found in the desolate Kingsbury Run section, through which Cleveland's rapid transit line speeds prosperous Clevelanders...
Just Half a Pound. View of a German butcher's shop with a thick-legged German hausfrau ordering from a heavily mustached butcher. A female torso hangs from the hooks beside a loin of beef, a trayful of human feet is behind the counter among the sausages...
...Overture. The audience, at once soothed by his meticulous phrasing, his insistence on broad, full tones, was no less impressed by his physical resource. Planting his feet widely, chin down, Conductor Barbirolli swayed his shoulders delicately through the lyrical passages, hunched forward to demand a pianissimo, twitched his kinetic torso and wagged his flying tails to call for quickened tempi. He guided the orchestra carefully through the tenebrous but imitative twilights of a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax, The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew. Like Barbirolli, to whom it is dedicated, the Bax piece had never been heard...
...strewing of anatomical members hither and yon in Boston harbor. Probably since the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, or at least since Jessic Costello cleaned her boiler, Boston has never had such a good time in its traditional macabre manner. But the current scavenger hunt for the missing "mutilated torso" has them all beat for journalistic interest. It is certain that if Charles Dickens were living today his words would be, "Oops, there goes Mrs. Asquith's head again!" The different angles from which the affair is viewed show an interesting cross-section. The church may look down its nose...
...room in Manhattan's swank Wildenstein Galleries six statues went on view this week. All were formalized, slickly modeled, carved from most expensive materials. One female torso had been executed in rose Milan marble, a pinkish metallic veined stone so rare that it may no longer be exported from Italy. Averaging $5,000 apiece in price, all were the work of suave, spectacled Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski. At the same time word came from Paris that the Ministry of Fine Arts had decided to invest French taxpayers' money in two Lovet-Lorski pieces: a bronze nude...