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Enter, Indeterminancy. A man in sneakers and grey-flannel slacks walked over to the balloons and started popping them with a pin. A contralto in a sickly green satin cocktail suit began singing St. Louis Blues. A dancer in a black leotard skipped rope while the pianist slammed the keyboard with his elbows. "Five!" cried Cage, his arm descending like the second hand of a clock. Sneakers hit the piano strings with a dead fish. Black Leotard read a newspaper while marking time to the wail of the trombone by flipping a garbage can lid with her foot...
...said Cody, he had had no intention of killing Barbara Finch. When Cody failed to act, the prosecution contended. Finch and Carole decided to do the job themselves. They assembled the "murder kit" in an attaché case: rope, carving knife, drugs, surgical gloves, .38-cal. shells, hypodermic syringes and needles. The plan, declared Prosecutor Whichello: ambush Barbara, knock her out with Seconal, inject a fatal air bubble into her bloodstream, and then put her behind the wheel of her car and push it off the cliff. Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near...
...Wool Over His Eyes. In Rochester, N.Y., asked by Patrolman Joseph Verso why she was dangling a rope out of her window with a pair of white socks tied to the end of it, a housewife explained: "My husband spends all day in the barroom downstairs, and when I want him to come up, I dangle his socks in front of the barroom window...
Miss McKenna, who has had a long association with the Cambridge Drama Festival, played the title role of St. Joan in the summer of '56, and the part of Lady Macbeth last season. On Broadway she has starred in The Rope Dancers and The Chalf Garden...
...that. The local justice of the peace, who is also a miner and a poet, follows the crime to its solution. But violence, although it is one of the elements of life in Novelist Gallie's village, is not the dominant one. The book begins with poetry-impudent, rope-skipping verses shrilled out by little girls-and it ends the same way, as the justice of the peace at last works out the opening lines of a verse that has been troubling...