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Solicitor Mitchell said he had offered the Count $250,000 as a gesture-a "settlement for life." When the Count said $250,000 was "laughable and an insult," Solicitor Mitchell countered: "I wish somebody would insult me." Threatening to give the already much-publicized Countess Barbara "three years of hell with headlines," the Count was then represented by Solicitor Mitchell as having talked of suicide, murder, blackmail and kidnapping. This prompted Countess Barbara to have the Count arrested when he came to England. "If I blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted...
Since Sitting Bull ambushed Custer by the Little Big Horn in 1876, Montana has had few major disturbances. But this year Montana's jutting peaks and high, scarred badlands, from Custer Creek to Hell Gate Canyon, have been acting up. Last January a Northwest Airlines Lockheed Zephyr shook off part of its tail structure, plummeted into Bridger Canyon, bringing ten persons to death. Last month the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific's Olympian dived through a trestle into Custer Creek during a cloudburst, killing and drowning 47. Following week the Olympian ran through orders near Roundup...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...
...bashful about his exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager in Newport News, clerk in Manhattan, a two year stint in Bulgaria buying Turkish leaf tobacco. Thence...
Religious and mystical novelists were once able to frighten sinners by giving terrifying descriptions of Hell. Nowadays, they make the world sound as bad as Hell once did. In Luckypenny, Bruce Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle) demonstrates this development with a sermon thriller hinging on three themes : 1) that "rich men have been too selfish," which in turn makes the poor "unable to govern their greed," 2) that "mechanical invention has progressed out of all ratio to spiritual perfection," 3) that "men no longer believe...