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When a Russian censor bottles up some of his copy, the Baltimore Sun's Moscow Correspondent Howard M. Norton often lets off steam in an uncensored letter to his mother, Mrs. Grace Murphey who lives in Miami. A few weeks ago Mrs. Murphey showed the letters to a friend, Miami Herald Reporter Phil Fortman. The Herald promptly announced a series based on them, including such nuggets-censored out of Norton's dispatches-as an account of worshipful Muscovites braving the new line against Stalin to visit his mausoleum...
...looked up at the small group, most of whom were beginning to be politely bored with a story they had heard over and over again throughout Europe. But the farmer continued, gathering steam as he went...
...much of a mystery after the first chapters, but it is notable for an unusual hero and some fascinating details about the unpleasant profession of burking.* B. G. Brooks is a mild-mannered little investigator for a trade association of cemetery owners. He always carries an umbrella, lets off steam by exclaiming "Gracious, me!" and "Oh, dear!" but is a dangerous man for villains to tangle with...
...voting on the smoker, the Council was largely guided by the need for maintaining a class function where students "could let off steam," yet where the tone was not one of "debauchery...
...pioneering many technical advances in the industry. In 1947 Sporn helped develop AGE's 330,000-kw., high-voltage transmission lines, the most powerful (and therefore most economical) in the U.S. Sporn will soon start operating the first U.S. power plant (Philo, Ohio) in which ultra-high-pressure steam is used to generate power...