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Cool and confident in his superior strength and wisdom one day last week, Henri Villette, a 67-year-old barrelmaker of Alencon, clapped an unwanted kitten into a musette bag and set out for the Sarthe River to drown it. On the river's bank he slipped and fell. The kitten crawled to safety. Henri's drowned body was found later by local firemen...
General Douglas MacArthur announced the beginning of the end of a four-year-old U.S. experiment in anti-fraternization. Purpose of the new regulations, said SCAP in its best military English, is to establish "as far as is practicable the same relationship between Occupation personnel and the indigenous population as exists between the U.S. troops stationed in the U.S. and the indigenous population of the U.S." The new rules, moreover, are intended "to permit an attitude of friendly interest and guidance toward the Japanese people, which is reflective of democratic ideals...
Thus fortified, he proceeds to his job of setting Argentina's cultural tone. Minister Ivanissevich (a surgeon by profession, a guitarist and poet by avocation) also heads a secretariat of culture which has inquired in the past year into such matters as anti-religious sentiment in comic strips, the faulty patriotism of newsreels, and the alleged immorality of lyrics to certain popular tangos. Last week Oscar got around...
Inquiry then turned to the unidentified shipper. The taxi driver who had brought her to the airport recalled that she had asked him to drive carefully, saying: "These aren't eggs I'm carrying." Investigators soon discovered that she was Mrs. Marie Pitre, a 41-year-old Quebec City housewife who had had notes endorsed by Albert Guay. One day last week Mrs. Pitre, told by Guay that the police were shadowing her, took an overdose of sleeping tablets, was rushed to the hospital. There, as she began to recover, she admitted that she had shipped the mysterious...
...police nothing. A slight, boyish-looking man with wavy hair, he had met Rita Morel, in a Quebec arsenal during the war. Their marriage became a long series of quarrels. Last spring Guay began going with a pretty young nightclub waitress named Marie-Ange Robitaille. Rita and her five-year-old daughter moved to her mother's home...