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Another in the series of Caribbean earthquakes was reported yesterday at 10 minutes, 43.5 seconds after 6 o'clock this morning, by the University seismograph station, at Harvard, Massachusetts. The center of the shock was reported to be 1,500 miles south of the station...
...million damage suit against the censorious Eric Johnston office for keeping the Hughes-produced Outlaw and its busty Jane Russell out of most of the nation's cinemas. The front was expanding. British censors were now reported doctoring Miss Russell's outlawful curves, and modest shock was officially registered by the Association of Bill Posters of England and Ireland...
Last week Barney, 37 and greying, turned up in the United States Attorney's office in Manhattan to report himself a drug addict. It started, said he, when he was in a Guadalcanal hospital, with shock and malaria. A couple of his hospital corpsmen friends had given him dope (not part of the services' regular malaria therapy, but a rare resort in cases of extreme migraine). As months went by, his headaches recurred; somehow (perhaps with forged prescriptions), Barney got more dope. Says he: "I got in over my head...
...stylists got some publicity they had not counted on. As Hollywood's pretty designer Dede Johnson paraded her new styles on the rim of the Canyon, she fell over the edge, landed on a ledge 50 feet down. Luckily, she was unhurt, except for bruises and shock; luckily there were news stories. (Eastern stylists cattishly murmured that this was going too far, even for California...
...normal jet cruising speed, which is well above 300 m.p.h., every air effect is sharply exaggerated. "A patch of rough air," said an Army pilot, "which would be slightly jostling to another plane, suddenly slams you against your belts. You thank your crash helmet for absorbing the shock when the canopy smacks downward...