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There were, wrote Reporter McLean, three kinds of campers?"shell-shocked, whiskey-shocked, depression-shocked." About half were psychopaths. Most of their pay went to liquor dealers and moonshiners. "They're hell-raisers and do no good to anybody," said Charleston police. At Blaney some 15 veterans were on the chain gang. Kingstree citizens were worried by the campers' attentions to their "brass ankle women"?mongrel white-Negro-Indian wenches who hang about the Negro settlements. At Kingstree a score of drunken campers had just wrecked the entire second floor of the town jail. Women & children were staying...
...heaven? Is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel! Smiled Judge Mack: "The Scarlet Pimpernel hasn't a damned thing on Hopson...
...claims which cinema producers may make for their efforts, these statements which appeared last week on behalf of Dante's Inferno were legally permissible though they had little or nothing to do with the actual contents of the picture. Dante's Inferno is not only not about Hell but it also has no connection with Dante, save for the fact that a subsidiary character owns a copy of that Italian's works. It is, on the contrary, a modern morality play showing how a carnival concessionaire (Spencer Tracy) works up to the status of amusement tycoon...
Died. Gustav Lindenthal, 85, famed U. S. bridge builder; after long illness; in Metuchen, N. J. Builder of the Hell Gate. Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges, Austrian-born Engineer Lindenthal's fondest dream was never fulfilled: a giant span across the Hudson River at 57th Street, opposed by the War Department for reasons of wartime navigation. Also built by Engineer Lindenthal were Pennsylvania R. R.'s Hudson and East River tunnels...
Said one member of the Ways & Means Committee: "This is a hell raiser, not a revenue raiser...