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...little facts. Gibbs groped through candlelit corridors buttonholing Government and opposition M.P.s, listened to the Commons debating fuel with four of the ten light clusters in the chambers symbolically turned off, and, to get the political reaction, read the 17,000 words sent in by the stringers in the stricken cities of Manchester, Sunderland, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Bradford, Blackpool...
Ambition. In the beginning, as children of a poverty-stricken Viennese scholar, they had adored each other. Ruth, the older, became a Communist first. Gerhart, who won five decorations as an officer of the Austrian Army in World War I, joined the party in the fevered days of 1918. They worked together. When Ruth, then a bundle of sex appeal and intellectual fire, went to Berlin, Gerhart followed. She became a leader of the German Communist Party, and a member of the Reichstag. But Gerhart took a different ideological tack, began to covet power for himself. He applauded when Ruth...
...remained unfilled, the gloomier grew prospects for floating the billions in securities needed to finance world reconstruction. Private bankers, lukewarm at best, had now cooled to the whole project. The World Bank's prestige had fallen so low that some Manhattan bankers talked about getting the unissued securities stricken from New York State's "legal list," i.e., the list of securities in which savings banks may invest...
...letter from the state representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Council was informed that its gift of $600--slightly over ten cents per student enrolled--would be earmarked for the former Freshman stricken with the disease at the beginning of the Fall term...
...must for anyone handling the Elizabeth Short case. . . . What are the police? Baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced, tightlipped. What is the victim? Beautiful, dark-haired, pretty. . . . What sort of crime is it? Fiendish. How was the body mutilated? Horribly. . . . What are members of the victim's family? Grief-stricken. When they are not baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced or tightlipped, what are the police? Desperate. What is the public at large? Shocked. What does the killer face? The greatest man hunt in Los Angeles history...