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...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...
Your apostrophic editorial of last Friday concerning the crack-down on Sean O'Casey's play, written in understandable indignation at Boston's occasional stupidity in the matter of censorship, runs a little wild in matters of fact. I take it, from your reference to the critics, that you haven't read the play; in any case, I beg to differ with your statement that it has been termed "great" by the "most experienced dramatic critics in the United States." Some of them said that, some said quite the contrary, most were agreed that it was considerably inferior...
...superhuman efforts the loading rate was screwed up to 53,000 cars per day for a time, then relapsed to 48,000. Among Soviet railway men slated for shooting last week were six survivors of one of the worst major collisions in years on the Moscow-Leningrad run, crack line of the entire Soviet Union. To clear the wreckage last year took 13 hours. Few details passed the censor, except that the wreck was a rear-end collision, the dead, 23. With the thermometer at -25°, corpses hacked out of the wreckage were rigid icicles...
...farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter of a foreign keeper of a wine shop, and collapsed in a shambles when Bismarck and Moltke sent their crack Prussians into France...
...least one occasion pressed Ford hard for second place in the Big Three's race. And even last year Plymouth lost less ground to Ford than did Chevrolet. More notable, the man who has multiplied Plymouth's sales by five is one of the few crack motormen who did not rise from the bench. Mr. Hutchinson is primarily a financial man, having raised the money to keep old Maxwell Motor alive when Walter P. Chrysler was fashioning that company into a personal springboard...