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In Addis Ababa two Sundays ago the Abuna, "Father of Peace" to the Coptic Christians of Ethiopia, donned a black cassock, long cape and purple cap. As nominal head of the Church, Emperor Haile Selassie arose early, stepped into his automobile which took him up a hill to the octagonal...
The excitement lasted precisely 141 seconds. Levinsky rose from his stool in the corner, walked across the ring. The Negro knocked him down, first with a solid left hook to the chin for a referee's count of two, then, when Levinsky got up, three times more, for counts...
To Superintendent Cornish, with his attention firmly fixed on convictions, the drudgery of detective work was more important than individual brilliance; confessions were better than the most artful chains of circumstantial evidence; medical analysis was tricky and unreliable, since doctors often disagreed. Greatest anticlimax of Cornish's professional career...
Lying on his cot in the white glare, Anacleto was suddenly terrified to hear, softly, susurringly, as if from the Beyond, the voice of his dead friend. "Tit me mataste, Anacleto," came the spectral murmur. "You killed me. I am Areo's ghost. You had better confess, Anacleto. You...
Another recent drift was Dictator Stalin's abrupt dissolution of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, hitherto Russia's Communist elite. While many a Communist abroad accused Comrade Stalin of selling true Marxism down Russia's rivers. Comrade Leon Trotsky moved last week from France to Norway, thus...