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...admitting that Sir Bernard Spilsbury as much as thought these four letters were the end of a place name such as "Guilford." Apparently even Sir Bernard was somewhat baffled. He asked the Home Office to order Scotland Yard to request by radio that police throughout the United Kingdom search all parcels which had remained more than two weeks in station check rooms. No sooner had this search begun than the remains of a stillborn baby were found at Brighton in a wicker basket which had been checked on Feb. 24. "You see it was a wicker fish basket," explained...
...Steel Corp. last week had reason to wish that a minister's son named Talcott Williams Powell had never become editor of the Scripps-Howard Indianapolis Times and gone prowling out of his sanctum in search of news stories. Fortnight ago when a general steel strike threatened, 34-year-old Editor Powell led four of his newshawks to Gary, Ind., U. S. Steel's private stronghold in the Midwest. He wanted to observe the exact layout of the steel mills and to chart lines of communication for covering what looked like a major industrial...
Next month Harold Compere, at the insistent demand of the citrus growers of southern California, sets out on an extended exploration of South America on an almost hopeless quest for such a heroine. Thus we search the Seven Seas. One lucky find, however, will pay for years of fruitless search...
...sudden bloodless coup d'etat (TIME, May 21; June 4). Last week Through-the-Middle Gueorguieff struck straight at Bulgaria's most ancient ache, her bloodthirsty Macedonian minority, by issuing an order prohibiting private ownership of arms and munitions, and announcing that a house-to-house search would follow. Hundreds of Bulgarians did not wait; the weapons dropped mysteriously into the gutters...
...Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings he has collected from various hiding places 14 Shavian pieces, dating as far back as 1885. Latest and largest item in the collection is The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (published separately in 1933). Shaworshipers who have grown old along with their idol will welcome reverently these half-forgotten fragments; to neo-Shavians the book will have a more archeological interest. One lengthy dramatic dialog, originally intended as a part of Back to Methuselah, has never before been published, contains a masterly caricature of Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, under...