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Alice is a brisk, sober, sandy-haired woman, with thin lips and level blue eyes. Even when she was a rookie, fellow cops on the auto-theft detail admired her for her cool nerve. She went anywhere, any time, and she carried her blue .38-caliber service pistol as naturally as she did her handbag. In a year, she built up quite a record of arrests...
...days in Boston's federal district court, twelve jurors had sat and watched the thin, arrogant face of Traitor Douglas Chandler, the first man in U.S. history to be tried for giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy by broadcasting propaganda...
...example, the Government got tough with more than 60 Iraqis charged with a Communist conspiracy against the state. Chief defendant was Yusuf Salman, Moscow-trained Communist leader known to the underground as El Fahd (The Cheetah). Last week El Fahd, pale and thin after an eight-day hunger strike against conditions in his sweltering Baghdad prison, faced his judges in striped pajamas and sandals. Salman fainted in his chair as he heard the sentence: death for him and two codefendants. Thirty-four others were sentenced to prison, 28 were acquitted...
...fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents her screen success; in the last scene, after a crippling fall, it is implied that she sacrifices her thin chances for life rather than stand him up on a date...
...principal reason for such relatively painless transition was United's canny wartime conservatism. It did not expand beyond its abilities. Rentschler, who has a dread of spreading the brains too thin, farmed out work to some 650 vendor companies. To build P. & W. engines it licensed, among others, Ford, Buick, Nash-Kelvinator and Continental. Rentschler learned his job in more than 30 years' experience in the aircraft industry...