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...once or twice shifting the direction of his characters' lives, Inge has revealed the surface and something of the underside of all anonymous humanity. And by writing with pervasive, even explosive humor-by showing that the way to man's heart can be through his funny bone-Inge has not just brightened, he has also enlarged his picture...
...Some hanging experts insist that "High Hangman" Berry's table still stands; current British Hangman Al bert Pierrepoint lets his judgment be guided by imponderables, e.g., age, bone structure...
...line is ruthlessly twisted around his neck. For long stretches. Author Wechsberg takes his eyes off Slansky-Stern to sketch in personal memories of how the easygoing Kaffeeklatsch world of his youth was laced into the straitjacket of Red tyranny. The book is good reporting. There is only one bone to pick with Wechsberg's theme-other and better novelists have already picked its bones...
...course; he bobbed his four final runs in a total time of five minutes, 10.55 seconds. U.S. Bobber Lloyd Johnson, 40, the 1953 champion, had less luck. Experimenting with rope guides earlier this month at Garmisch, he had been flipped on his head and suffered a broken collar bone. At St. Moritz, the broken bone held rigid in a splint, Johnson could not hold his sled on the chute. It climbed the wall of Sunny Corner, tossed him and his teammates out of the running...
...Bone-weary from only six hours' sleep in three days, but having lost precious few points along the way, Sheila pulled into Monte Carlo along with 270 other finishers. There, after the long haul across Europe, the leaders put their cars through another ordeal: an exacting series of starts and stops, parking and braking tests, on the devilish Col de Braus, a steep circuit that climbs through the mountains behind Monte Carlo...