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...fortunate was Edward Allman, Passaic, N. J. high-school senior. He was watching some javelin throwers practicing. A random throw struck him in the forehead, pierced his brain. He died...
...audience pleasantly amused, especially by her trick of beginning to talk in rapturous innocence and then coming out with the darndest things. The men who call forth this piquant display are less interesting, except for Mr. Connolly as the crusty and poverty-stricken lawyer whom she picks at random from the telephone book when the situation seems to call for a husband. Very entertainingly his fortunes look up for a time as the incredible little Cindarella sends a rich client his way. But the promised legal practice vanishes at a fairy's caprice, and even the new pencil-sharpener...
...College Entrance Board. Concerning even an exact a science as mathematics for example, the committee found that in "a study of markings of the algebra and geometry examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board revealed an amazing variance in the individual judgments of the different examiners. The correlation between random markings of the algebra examination was only...
Hours later Police Officer George Harbottle saw a closed car speeding toward him on the eastern outskirts of Honolulu. He flagged it. It whizzed by. He chased it in his police car two miles, five miles, ten miles, firing random shots at the tires. Finally in a burst of speed he edged in front of it, forced it to nose into an embankment. Opening its door he found a grey-haired, middle-aged woman at the wheel, a trim, nice-looking young man beside her. In the back seat sat another young man and, beside him, a mummy-like thing...
IDYLL IN THE DESERT?William Faulkner?Random House ($3.50). If you are collecting Faulkner items, Idyll in the Desert would be a good morbid one to get. An unpublished short story by the author of Sanctuary and The Sound and the Fury, it was limited to 400 copies, each signed by the author, has already been sold out. The story, told by an old mail-carrier of the Southwest with many false starts and digressions, relates the sad fate of a nameless woman. Married to a rich husband in the East, with two children, she left them to come...