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NowaDays. When two girls fancy a man, everyone is apt to be perturbed, and someone, according to Playwright Arthur F. Brash, is likely to get killed. Barbara Herford and Paula Newhall bet fifty dollars over Boyd Butler, a robust footballer who was also greatly interested in such erudite matters as coin collections...
Deviously Paula set about her malefactions. First she led Boyd to believe that Barbara had merely been duping him. So much did this evidence of duplicity infuriate the upright fellow that he straightway became drunk and stole into the night with Paula. She took him to an unsavory rooming house, where a blue-chinned bootlegger appeared. Boyd sampled his wares and found them unpalatable. When the bootlegger asked for pay, Boyd refused. A tussle ensued. The bootlegger produced a revolver. Paula snatched a convenient bottle and felled him. Then while Boyd dropped in a drunken stupor over the bootlegger...
Later she showed her dingy colors by silently allowing the evidence to point toward Boyd as the murderer. When the truth threatened, she downed a dose of cyanide of potassium...
...Marion Boyd, 17, of Detroit, student at the Northwestern High School, bit her pencil and finally wrote: THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY?BEAUTIFY...
...Rockefeller's prizes: A three-day trip to Washington, including a presidential handshake, for Marion Boyd and companion...