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...homicidal maniac. The terror and hysteria rise to a high boil when the remains of local women are found neatly decapitated and expertly carved. Before the killer gets his comeuppance, the frigid daughter of one of the town's leading citizens thaws herself out, and town and townsmen are brought to naked life with considerable psychological insight...
Public housing is a useful weapon for correcting "civic disgraces," said ex-Mayor Slusser, harking back to the old controversy: "In this city, I was denied that weapon. I would not have it denied to my successors." Slusser appealed to his fellow townsmen to recognize the new public-housing program as a good example of the change in attitude toward business which the 1952 election brought to Washington...
...first real pea-souper of this year's smog season rolled over London, 6,000 doctor-members of the London Local Medical Committee, deeply distressed "at the lack of any effective response from official quarters to what can truthfully be described as a national disaster," urged fellow townsmen to protect their lungs with sixpence worth of gauze folded into a six-layer mask and tied over the mouth and nose. The meshes of the mask, said the committee, would arrest most of the soot, while moisture from the breath, condensed on the mask, would prevent passage of some...
Wildly cheered on by some 6,000 fellow townsmen, including his parents and sister, versatile Milt alternately sped and powerhoused his graceful bulk through the decathlon's exacting tests. He sprinted the fastest 100-meter dash of his life (10.5), and also took first in the 400-meter run, high jump and shot-put. Going into the second day with a big 717-point lead, Milt won the 110-meter high hurdles by nearly a second in 14.3, later loped heavy-footed through the 1,500-meter run to pick up a final 134 points...
...When the townsmen first approached Portinari a year ago, the peppery little (5 ft. 5 in.) artist replied: "I am no longer a Catholic; I do not believe-but I understand. Many of the people I love best are Catholics, and for them religion is important. I will try to make a good thing that will serve them." Bishop Mousinho had grave doubts at first: not only was Portinari a Communist; in 1946 he had painted some murals for a church at Pampulha full of such strange, angular distortions that the church refused to consecrate the building...