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...muddy streets of a nearby village, then slashed off their heads with a great curved sword, supposedly in a shrewd effort to embarrass Generalissimo Chiang. A Chinese Christian pastor found the Stams' baby girl alive in a deserted house, a $10 bill and several clean diapers tucked inside her blanket. Chinese mothers volunteered milk until the infant could be taken to the Wuhu hospital where she was born three months...
...mysterious telephone call to a Chicago undertaker gave police directions which took them to a muddy ditch outside a cemetery in Niles Center. There, wrapped in a blanket, they found a small, naked corpse. There were eight bullet wounds in its legs, one big one in its belly beneath a wad of bloody cotton. A downy mustache was on its upper lip and four finger tips had been scarred by file and acid. But by prints of the unscarred fingers police quickly assured themselves that the round, blank face, now horribly contorted, was that of "Baby Face" Nelson. In Cook...
...word Aryan, it is a fine one for the experts to quarrel over. I think to the average reader it means that the Germans want Germans for their neighbors and business and scholastic associates. Why quibble about that, or the word German, or Nordic, or Teutonic. They are mere blanket terms for a desired...
...turtle, Fleur de Lys, came through safely was Mrs. Piccard's first concern. Dr. Jean Piccard, brother of famed ecstatic Stratospherist Auguste Piccard, was tired and the rough landing hurt his foot. He curled up in a blanket and rested. Mrs. Piccard powdered her nose. The sealed barograph went to Washington. The cosmic ray recorders went to Dr. W. F. G. Swarm of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation. A sack of mail went to stamp collectors...
Harvard's record is the most impressive on paper, with a 21-35 victory over Holy Cross and a 15-50 blanket win over New Hampshire. Yale, however, has had as successful a season, though it ran up against harder competition. Last week Yale beat Cornell for the first time in thirty-five years, with the score 21-35. It should be noted that the race was run on a wet track, and that despite these conditions, an Eli runner came within six seconds of the course record...