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Every afternoon, millions of U.S. youngsters tune in a radio program that begins: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. . . . It's Superman!" Last week, radio row was still chuckling over Clayton ("Bud") Collyer's dilemma. Like many another commuter, the 37-year-old radio actor who plays Superman had been stuck in Manhattan by the rail strike...
Flattening the rails under the thrust of its screeching brakes, Bill Elaine's bullet-nosed diesel locomotive ripped through the steel rear Pullman like gutting a catfish and buckled the lighter diner ahead. Said a priest: "I saw bodies . . . decapitated . . . crushed beyond human shape." The total death toll...
Next day the delegates drove along boulevards, where ill-fed Parisiennes in gay print frocks strolled beneath the blooming chestnuts, and swung through the faded green wooden gates into the courtyard of the Luxembourg Palace. A black, bullet-proof Cadillac yielded a grey, tired-looking Molotov. As the courtyard clock struck 4, an oldfashioned, boxlike Daimler arrived. Red-faced, breathing heavily, Ernie Bevin half ran up the steps as if afraid he would be late...
Japanese nightcrawlers, toward the end of the war, often crawled in vain. They would sneak toward U.S. lines, trusting the friendly night. Then out of the silent darkness, a well-aimed bullet would pick them off. Could U.S. snipers see in the dark? Last week, the Army said yes and told...
Died. Colonel Albert Arnold Sprague, 69, wholesale grocer (Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp.), onetime "generalissimo" of Chicago's anti-crime committee, power behind Mayor Anton J. Cermak's short lived civic-reform drive (which ended in 1933 when Cermak was killed by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt); in Chicago...