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Coach Haines said yesterday that it is still much too early to offer any comment concerning the latent possibilities in this year's green material, but that it seemed to be a bit lighter than usual. So that he can devote all his time to impressing the fundamentals of a quick shoot-away and slo-o-ow recovery to his bargemen, he has turned the experienced Freshmen, including three prep school captains, over to Charlie Whiteside, varsity mentor...
Thus doubly bullied by the world's most powerful fleet and most plausible statesmen, Big Bully Benito Mussolini raged in Rome: "We find it monstrous that the nation which dominates the world refuses us a small bit of land under the African sun! Many times I have given Britain assurance that her interests in Ethiopia would be scrupulously respected. Her attitude, I repeat, is monstrous! The real reasons why Britain so strongly opposes Italy she does not mention...
...Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley for letting a total of 19 snakes escape at various times from their cages. Among the missing: three Egyptian cobras whose bite is usually fatal, one deadly poisonous Bandy-Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch by Director Bean who is not afraid to admit, "I am deadly...
...Koenecke soon became rambunctious. He began nudging Mulqueeny, grabbing the controls, locking his arm about the startled pilot's neck. Suddenly Koenecke leaped at Parachuter Davis. sank his teeth through several layers of cloth into the smaller man's elbow, bore him to the floor, tore at his clothes, bit into his flesh again & again...
...girl Frankie. Romance survives near-murder, drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final confession clears the last red herring...