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...barracks last week Liu, the peasant's son, came upon the trunk of a captured Japanese. In it he found a pair of hobnailed shoes. They were worn and rough, but they were leather. Carefully Liu drew them on his feet. To his bare ankles they felt smooth and cool as silk. Liu wriggled his toes, walked a few steps, and grinned. This was no dream...
...Lawyer. In 1919 he started a modest law practice, earning about $35 a month. Soon (1921) he found himself in the limelight of Seattle's famous Mahoney trunk murder. His client. James A. Mahoney, was convicted and hanged, but every crime-reading family in the Northwest knew of Lew Schwellenbach's fight to save...
...screamed that it had been hoaxed, asked the FBI to investigate. Somewhere along its eastern trunk lines, in any of 30 bureaus and newspaper offices east of the Mississippi, someone had fed the false news onto the teletypes...
...Fungus infections of trunk, thighs, face, scalp. These may be red, white or various shades of brown, may produce temporary baldness...
Last week Harvard announced the names of next year's Nieman fellows. For the first time the list included women: dark-haired Mary Ellen Leary, political reporter for the San Francisco News, and blond Charlotte Louise Fitz Henry, Chicago night trunk-wire editor for the Associated Press. Others: Robert Joseph Manning, Washington U.P. staffman; Ben Yablonky, PM foreign news rewrite man; Cary Robertson, the Louisville Courier-Journal's Sunday editor; Arthur Wallace Hepner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter; James Batal, OWI feature writer; Richard Edgar Stockwell, Minneapolis's WCCO-CBS associate news editor; Frank West Hewlett, United...