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...murky evening, a young lady is walking unescorted through a city street when an evil-looking Negro buck darts toward her, slugs her over the head with a rock, seizes her purse, darts away. Up to the curb glides a La Salle limousine. Out of it steps a gentleman in full evening dress and top hat. With a few nimble bounds, he overtakes the fleeing Negro, pinions him fast. Then from his pocket the gentleman whips a gleaming pen knife. Deftly he slits the Negro's throat from ear to ear. Returning to the young woman...
...Little Rock...
...coalition has had a majority strength of 58%. Hitherto Engineer Mussert, much addicted to quiet maneuvering behind the scenes, has put up no candidates, saying "The N. S. B. is a movement, not a party." Last week when votes were counted the Colijn coalition strength was still a rock-ribbed 58% majority but other Dutch parties had lost to Mussert some 8% of the vote, thus giving N. S. B. 39 seats in ten provincial chambers...
According to U. S. political tradition, Massachusetts is a rock, Maine a weathervane...
Most newsworthy Wood item at the Manhattan show was a pencil drawing on brown wrapping paper called Adolescence lent by Clarence Guy Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once...