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...managed to track the raven down until recently a police commissioner in the neighborhood began to get letters ("Madame So-and-So caused two persons to disappear in 1943 and buried their bodies in her garden"). The commissioner got on the trail, arrested Madame Célestine Camille Martin, a 57-year-old pianist and World War I widow. Unable to make a living as a pianist, she had tried as best she could to eke out her meager 7,000 franc ($20) monthly pension. Last week a Paris court sentenced her to eight months in prison. The prospect...
Early in the week, at appropriately named Sabeh Garanieh Palace ("Palace of the Man of Bad Luck"), Richard Stokes had brought out Britain's plan. Recognizing the new forces at work, the old Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. would disappear; all the company's property in Iran would be transferred to the government-owned National Iranian Oil Co. A new purchasing organization set up by the British would buy the oil from National Iranian, market it, divide the net profits 50-50 with the Iranians. The purchasing organization and National Iranian would jointly create a third outfit to handle...
Spelunking along the Spanish border early this summer, Scientist Georges Lépineux watched a black mountain crow fly into a yawning pit and disappear. Since crows love dark recesses almost as much as speleologists do, Amateur Geologist Lépineux rushed to investigate. A small cave led off the pit floor, and a few feet inside the cave mouth a limestone chimney dropped away into darkness. Cautiously, Lépineux heaved a rock into the opening, waited for the faint, faraway sounds of its fall. Then he rushed to report his discovery...
...week, the Government's index of wholesale prices had dropped, mainly because of shakeouts in commodities. Wool had skidded to $2.15 a lb. compared to $3.80 five months ago. Cotton men, who screamed early this year that if cotton were frozen at 45? a lb., their profits would disappear, were now glad to sell for 35?. Result: the big makers of bed sheets last week cut their prices from...
...guano birds is ceaseless. Off the coast, cold water wells up from the bottom of the sea bringing nutrients that support vast shoals of fish on which the guano birds feed. Sometimes a shift of wind or ocean currents brings warm water to their islands. Then the fish disappear, and the birds starve...