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Last May two blackamoors stumbled over something horrid at the edge of Hornbecker's Pond near North Haverstraw, N. Y. It was a partially decomposed human head. One eye had been punched out, half of the nose severed, the lower jaw slashed. Last July a torso was found in Congers Lake, six miles away. Head and body belonged to the same person whom police surgeons described as an Italian or Jew about 45 years old with curly greying hair and the habit of smoking a pipe on the left side of his mouth. There were no other clews...
...London's New Burlington Galleries, surrealist artists from 14 countries held their first British exhibition. Londoners gaped at The Last Voyage of Captain Cook, a wire globe enclosing a striped female torso. Object Made by a Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child...
Chicago jeweler, and with a doll's torso added to complete the illusion, M. Martin's nimble digits became the legs of a ballet dancer, whirled through the pirouettes and entrechats, leaped, dipped, crumpled amid enthusiastic applause...
...should be in The Devil's Beef Tub. Instantly the place was swarming with strong-stomached tourists, Scottish villagers and police inspectors. The services of Sir Bernard Spilsbury were not required. Scotland did its own expert pathological sleuthing at Edinburgh University. Soon, except for the fact that one torso remained missing, there were pieced together by two meticulous Scottish University professors remains of a female of 20, provisionally known as "Body No. 1," and another female of 35, "Body...
...their unphilosophic and unscholarly impatience 5,000 male & female students demonstrated against Japan last week in Peiping. Afterward over 100 were hospitalized as a result of severe beatings by Chinese police. One youngster offered his slim torso with the cry "Beat me more!" and was obliged...