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Cleveland. A pair of simple psychotics made the week's final murder headlines in the Midwest. According to Mr. and Mrs. Waldman of Cleveland, just because Mr. Waldman had once known Mrs. Ida Rose Cooper, she sent magic fireballs into their windows at night. Mr. Waldman had been burnt. The Waldmans slept with a pair of pliers in the bed to catch the floating fireballs, a hammer and anvil to smash them with, and "even in this hot weather we had to keep the windows closed to keep the fireballs out." When Mrs. Matilda Waldman shot and killed...
...Senate is playing with dynamite. Not even the degrading horror of lynch law can condone the interference of the federal government in a problem which from a practical and moral viewpoint is totally the affair of the individual states. A solicitous national government has in the past often burnt its fingers by sticking them into purely sectional affairs, and it would be shortsighted folly for it to do so once again...
...killed with bayonets. When they examined the bodies they found that the Grand Duchess Anastasia had merely fainted. When she had been shot, the executioners wrapped the bodies in cloth, loaded them on a truck and carried them ten miles to an abandoned mine, where they were dismembered, burnt on gasoline-soaked pyres...
...consisting of 4-ft.-by-10-ft. panels, are bolted together with long strips of aluminum which give a modernistic effect to the exterior. The panels, 2¼in. thick, consist of two layers of mixed cement and asbestos. Between the layers is an insulating substance which looks like burnt cork and is termite-proof, fireproof. The outside of the house is a light grey, needs no paint. Extra rooms can be added from time to time by "unbuttoning" one outside wall...
...Sydney is not so much a novel as an interrelated series of portraits; the portraits are not so much human likenesses as translations into brilliant descriptive talk of different types of human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic proportions: Michael, the burnt-out veteran of 32; Baruch, the philosopher of the one-horse printshop; Catherine, the virgin in search of an angel; Chamberlain, the cheerfully hopeless incompetent businessman; Tom Withers, the intelligently rat-minded foreman. Only ordinary character in the book is Joseph, whose very ordinariness lights up the grotesque genius...