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...Rules of Murder: A prosecutor, chosen at random, is sent from the room. Cards are dealt face down to the other players, the one receiving the Queen of Spades becoming the murderer. All lights are extinguished. The murderer must find a victim, throttle it. The victim screams. After the scream the murderer may take only four steps, other players must stand in their tracks. All players must answer the Prosecutor truthfully except the murderer who may lie freely. The Prosecutor may openly accuse only one suspect...
...fruit of "several hundred" exposures. The photographer, unable to reload his camera in the air, could make only one exposure per flight. ¶ No pilot has been heard from who saw so many astonishing sights in the air as this man's camera, pointed at random, caught perfectly. (The camera was supposed to be pointing not always parallel to the machine gun; sometimes toward the side or rear...
TROILUS & CRESSIDA - Geoffrey Chaucer; Englished anew by George Philip Krapp-Random House ($3.50). Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340-1400), whom posterity has agreed to call a pretty poet, has had his ups & downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his sturdy uncouthness in modern dress. 17th-century Poet John Dryden ("Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House...
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...City News ticker. It was a brief bulletin of a fire in a building near Times Square. The rewrite man, Arthur McCullough, knew what to do. He thumbed through a reversed telephone directory (classified by address), called a number listed for the building. That telephone had been disconnected. At random he called another telephone in the same building. A man "with a voice that was both urbane and cheery" answered. In its next edition the Post published the conversation...