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...days later Singh and a few natives dug open the wolves' den. They slew the fiercely protective mother wolf, rescued the two waifs who nestled snarling among the wolf cubs. How they got in the den and whence they came were never discovered. Secretly the missionary put the wolf-children, females aged about two and eight, in his orphanage. He kept careful records and pictures of their development...
...John Lambton, angling godlessly on Sunday. Uncommonly ugly and uncommonly strong, the Worm escaped from the well into which he threw it and grew so huge that it would wrap itself many times around a nearby hill. It devastated the countryside and when cut into pieces reunited and slew its attackers. A local witch told Sir John he could kill it if he would fix razor blades to his armor and vow to kill the first living thing he saw after vanquishing the Worm. If he broke the vow, the beldame said, for nine generations no Lambton would...
...balding, mustached Ed McGrady will try to do for Secretary Stimson and the Army what a whole slew of conciliators for the War Department and Advisory Defense Commission was unable to do without a strike-as at Vultee. Universally respected by management and labor for fair dealing and wise counsel, Ed McGrady at 68 will serve, without pay, as Secretary Stimson's labor trouble shooter...
...richly laden shelves, librarians had taken down the Morgan Library's best 9th to 19th-Century bestiaries, travel books, mythologies, collected fables, lives of animal-loving saints, set their animal pictures under glass for the public. Daniels and St. Jeromes fondled lions in their dens, St. Georges slew dragons by the lanceful; behemoths, leviathans out of Job and seven-headed monsters out of Revelations reared and pranced on many an ancient parchment. An old Flemish manuscript showed St. Margaret being disgorged Caesarean-wise by a repentant dragon who had swallowed her. A fox ogled out-of-reach grapes...
Small Pickings. In the South, a neglected Axis partner also visited France. Accompanied by Marshal Pietro Badoglio and a slew of Fascist bigwigs, Benito Mussolini slipped across the Franco-Italian frontier at Piccolo San Bernardo. His inspection was brief because few morsels had been dropped from the Nazi carving board for the eager Duce...