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...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in April | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Poisons. Most food poisoning, popularly known as ptomaine poisoning, comes from eating custards, ice cream or sausages which contain staphylococcus germs, usually occurs in the summer, if these foods are not kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thought for Food | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Bill DeMerritt, cream of the Terrior pitching corps, will again get the call from Coach Mel Collard to face the Stahlnine. Last week he stifled the Crimson bats, allowing only two hits, but went down to defeat as a result of costly miscues by his mates...

Author: By Dave Stearns, | Title: Coach Stahl Revises Lineup, Will Depend on Hurling Against B.U. | 4/23/1941 | See Source »

...there are so many good-looking men here at Yale," said one of the feminine members of the West Orange, N.J. High Youth Hostelers. "I'll say, the cream of the crop," answered another. Led by a member of the German Department the Hostelers are bicycling their way through New England during the Easter Vacation.... "Gosh, did Franklin Roosevelt go to school here?". When politely, but firmly, told that FDR went to Harvard and that Harvard had no buildings comparable to Freshman Commons, the signed whisper came back, "But they have the reputation." -Yale News, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/17/1941 | See Source »

When World War I came, Percy got into bed, crammed down quarts of cream and dozens of raw eggs, made enough weight so that he could get into the A. E. F. He was made a captain, cited for bravery. He got back in time to help his father drive the Ku Klux Klan out of Greenville, Miss., after a two-year fight. That taught him what Nazis were like ten years before most people knew about Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Remembrance of Things Past | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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