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...Mistakenly identified by the FBI as a gun moll of the same name, who in 1935 slipped a pistol through the bars of her desperado husband's cell, thereby aiding in his break from the Muskogee, Okla. jail...
Cold was humor is pretty grisly stuff. Conceived in the shadow of Hiroshima's mushroom, most of it is as macabre as the chalkings of a condemned man on the wall of his death cell. For almost an hour Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow looks like an exception, juggling atomic weapons with a familiarly deft British touch. Then, as if exhausted by the harrowing task, it too succumbs to the subject matter...
...Czechoslovakia and shipped to a Soviet camp. In 1949, a Russian officer and woman interpreter came to question him: "They asked me whether I had ever passed through a certain village and whether I had been ordered to burn or loot. I said no. They put me into a cell with . . . just room to stand and said, 'If you don't confess, we will leave you here until your legs fall...
When Bernice Freeman, a grandmother who has four daughters (one older than Boles), entered his Nevada City cell, she greeted George warmly: "What gives, honey?" Answered George sadly: "It doesn't look so good." He said he was innocent of the Hansen murder, and blamed his arrest on "a web of circumstances." Reporter Freeman checked the evidence against him, then put it to George straight: "If you'll tell me positively that you had nothing to do with the Hansen murder, I'll do everything I can to get a good criminal lawyer to help...
...first antibiotic ever isolated by Nobel Prizewinner Selman Waksman was actinomycin. And just as Dr. Waksman hoped, the drug made strong medicine. It killed many man-killing microbes; unfortunately, it acted like a mankiller as well. It turned out to be a cytotoxin, a cell poison with the strange selective trick of attacking some cells more than others. So virulent that one milligram could kill a large chicken, actinomycin seemed far too dangerous ever to try on humans. Last week in Rome, pleasantly surprised, Dr. Waksman told the International Congress of Microbiology that German scientists have finally taken the sting...