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...every English crime fancier recalls, the legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman...
...minute you start remembering back you realize what a slew of things you been through and you gotta pretend you are telling someone so you can pick out what you remember the best, like my old man fighting with my mother...
...strikingly handsome young buck named Osceola. In 1835 the Government Indian Agent. General Wiley Thompson, summoned Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty of immediate emigration. Osceola advanced to the table, contemptuously drove his sheath knife through the paper. General Thompson threw him in chains. Osceola was shortly set free, slew General Thompson. President Jackson promptly launched the Second Seminole War. Quartering the tribe's women and children back in the swamps, Osceola led 1,600 braves in a guerrilla warfare which completely baffled the far larger forces of Federal troops and militia...
...after an appendectomy; at Harvey, Ill. An expert pistol and rifle shot, he turned to bows & arrows "because it gives the beasts a chance." In 1925 he went to Africa with Stewart Edward White and the late Dr. Saxton Pope, killed seven lions with his dagger-pointed arrows. He slew walruses in Greenland, a 1,300-lb. bear on Kodiak Island...
...some 90,000 Abyssinians routed 13,000 Italians, slew 6,500. This week Fascists exulted that smashing Italian victories in Abyssinia in 1935 will "wipe out the shame...