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Died. Dr. William Bleckwenn, 69, University of Wisconsin neuropsychia-trist who, while experimenting with drugs in 1929, found that a common barbiturate, sodium amytal, if administered intravenously instead of in sleeping-pill capsule form, often acted as a "truth serum" that proved of value in the treatment of mental patients until supplanted recently by other drugs; in Winter Haven...
...pint-size Portuguese colony on India's west coast, suffered an invasion last month. The invader was Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, the Indian National Congress' well-known Socialist, who was promptly jailed when he tried to hold a political meeting, then deported. The Congress' Goan leader, Tristão Braganza Cunha, was also jailed, and tried by a military court. Last week he was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, most of which he is expected to spend in Portugal's tropical African colony, Mozambique...
...American soul beneath the sectional variations which he defines so accurately. The American heart that is not contented asks, "How?", not "Why?". The why of Fredonia, the generic term for the land of the United States, is lost beyond the last long hills over which the soul of Trist Loner ran its ghostly last. In a hurry to tell the news. That is American, Trist's hurry to tell the news, old news that is new in a young land...
...months ago a flyer named Trist, onetime Royal Australian Air Force pilot, was lost in the bush near Zenang, New Guinea, while flying in the service of New Guinea Airways. A searching party of 50 natives and a white man beat their way into the region but were forced back by hostile tribesmen. Last week two natives emerged from the bush with the story that Trist's airplane had crashed, that the pilot had struggled on foot to the nearest village, that the villagers had butchered him, eaten him at a feast...
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