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...burst of newsmen's flashbulbs and sob sisters' ink that public executions were barred thenceforth. Once he was arrested on suspicion of being a German paratrooper when his portable guillotine got lost. Thanks to the occupying Germans' zeal for capital punishment, however, he managed to pile up a post-Sanson record of 316 beheadings during his career...
...time playing polo, but "I'm on a horse only a couple of times a year now." During week-ends, he goes to his mother-in-law's farm in New Hampshire, where "I enjoy myself by shooting in the Fall, chopping wood in the Winter, and trying to pile up as small a deficit as possible on the farm during the rest of the year. New England farms are not paying propositions...
...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...
Comparison of present and past elec-statistics seem to indicate that Curley has lost much of his drawing power. This time, his once-mighty machine did not pile up huge votes for him--even in his home districts. To veteran Boston political observers, this indicates that Hynes will have a very good chance of defeating Curley for the second time...
...attack, the two men to watch will be tailback Dick Clasby and fullback John Culver. Clasby cannot pass nearly so well as Captain Carroll Lowenstein, but he runs well, even when not accorded interference. Culver didn't lose a yard all afternoon. When confronted with a pile-up at the line, he disdains lowering his head and merely plunging' instead, he rumbles up one side of the heap, and down the other, as though the whole thing were solid ground...