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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vindication. In Long Branch, N.J., Maurice Podell, who as a little boy used to fiddle with his food instead of eating it as he should, attained fame of a sort as a sculptor in rye bread...
...hours later, while police searched the roads for the man who had deliberately snuffed out four lives, a man walked up to the complaint desk in San Antonio's police headquarters. He was immaculately dressed, and he had a problem. "It seems that I am in a sort of a trance," he confided, stolidly. "I have a gun in my car. I think it has been fired. I don't remember...
...would go far if only she could muster enough volume for the gallery seats. Further time was killed in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to portray "The American Tragedy" via the R-H (Rodgers and Hammerstein) formula. Dreiser is already dead, but his estate might find grounds for some sort of lawsuit here...
...this sort of banal jingling, 65-year-old Eddie Guest was hard to beat, at least as far as the Free Press's circulation department was concerned. But in the rival Detroit News, 58-year-old Anne Campbell, a grandmother herself, did her level best...
...Kaiser's proposal, New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges cried "unutterable gall." But Kaiser had a case of a sort. The Government, he pointed out, had sold the $200 million Geneva steel mill to U.S. Steel Corp. for 20.9? on the dollar-a loss of $162 million. (The other side of this argument was that Geneva had been auctioned off-and Big Steel got it because no one else wanted to pay the price it offered...