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Fated. In Camden, N.J., a judge recommended divorce for Mrs. Joseph Lane after she testified that her husband kept a revolver and a bullet marked with her initials, told her: "This bullet is especially for you, dear...
...stumbled over the body of a small girl in pajamas, her skull shattered. Dominici sprinted toward the car. Under a plaid rug, among the roadside weeds, he found the body of a woman dressed in a kimona. Across the road, under an overturned camp cot, he found the bullet-pierced body of an elderly man in blue pajama pants...
That confidence, and the enormous in crease in the nation's prescription business (up 350% in the last ten years), reflect a revolution in U.S. medicine. In stead of writing a shotgun formula requiring half a dozen ingredients,* a doctor can now prescribe a single-bullet remedy, neatly packaged in advance, its purity guaranteed by the maker. Two-thirds of the drugs most commonly prescribed to day did not even exist 20 years ago. In place of the citrates and tartrates, the nux vomica and monkshood of an earlier day, the druggists' rows of glass-stoppered bottles...
HUNGARY-Two cliques vied for Moscow favor after the war. Neither risked leaving the country when the Cominform was set up: little shots went instead. One clique was led by bullet-headed Matyas Rakosi, now 62, Soviet-trained and a seasoned jailbird. The other was led by Laszlo Rajk (rhymes with yoick), boss of underground Hungarian Reds during Nazi occupation. Two years later, Rajk was ousted from the party, "confessed" to being a spy, traitor and informer, and to plotting with Tito to overthrow the Communist regime. Disposition: hanged. Now boss: Rakosi...
Died. Irving Wexler, 63, alias Waxey Gordon, onetime (1905) pickpocket who advanced through stickups, slugging, dope-peddling and murder into big-time racketeering; of a heart attack; on Alcatraz. During Prohibition, paunchy, bullet-headed Waxey muscled into a string of New Jersey breweries, cleaned up a profit of $4,555,537 in 1931-32, but paid only $2,615.76 in income tax (for which U.S. District Attorney Tom Dewey put him away for seven years in 1933). In the underworld of Al Capone, Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz, Waxey luxuriated in a life of $10 silk underwear and shiny Lincolns...