Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last March 26 a Braniff Airways Chicago-Dallas airliner cracked up near Oklahoma City's airport on a night takeoff, killing seven passengers and the stewardess. Since then no U. S. airline has suffered a passenger fatality. With five weeks to go for the first year of perfect operations...
In Dublin the Irish Times editorialized: "According to all principles of British law, there can be no doubt of their guilt. The appeal we are making is ad misericordiam. Admittedly we have no case, but in our view there are higher considerations than stern justice and law." In Britain the...
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Warner Bros.) is 606, the arsenical compound that the dumpy, cigar-puffing Jewish genius found he could shoot into syphilitics and kill the pale spirochetes of syphilis without killing their victim. Warner Brothers have long been afraid that the bullet might ricochet from the...
Skeleton on Horseback (Czech). This last picture made by the Czechs from one of the last plays of their late great playwright, Karel Capek (R. U. R.), is reported to have been smuggled out of Czechoslovakia shortly after the German invasion. It is a lurid appeal for pacifism. Dr. Galen...
ONE WAY TICKET-Eugene O'Brien-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Late of the U.S. Navy (machinist's mate), hard-muscled Author O'Brien wrote as honestly about sailors in his first novel (He Swung and He Missed) as Steinbeck does about farm hands. This time he adds considerable...