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...recalled that Marie had once recommended arsenic to an unhappily married friend as a substitute for a hard-to-get divorce and that Léon had asked friends to have an autopsy performed if he died suddenly. Postmistress Pintou flatly accused Marie of murdering their Léon. Thirteen Besnard relatives who had died since 1927 were exhumed and examined by Marseille Toxicologist Georges Beroud; each body showed traces of arsenic. Each of the deceased also had left an inheritance to Marie Besnard. Discarding two of the bodies to make its case more solid, the state opened Marie...
Free & Fallen. Thirteen years old next week, the Free University has grown from nothing to a solid symbol of academic liberty and the second biggest (after Munich) university in West Germany. It is the Western opposite of the fallen University of Berlin, which the Russians plucked when the Allies sliced Berlin four ways. The old university-founded in 1810 by Wilhelm von Humboldt and once among Europe's greatest-had a history rich with the influence of Hegel, Fichte, Kant, Goethe and Leibnitz. The Nazis killed all that; the Russians buried it. The East Berlin plant survives as Humboldt...
...Glozer: Children's Concert (Wonderland). With the aid of some infectiously gay patter and a sunny, open voice, Singer Glazer plays on a squealing suburban audience as expertly as he strums on the guitar. Thirteen selections, including Hush, Little Baby, Jimmie Crack Corn, Skip...
...even his good eye faded. Thurber sketched and wrote with a black crayon on huge sheets of yellow paper. When the fog became too thick, he stopped sketching and learned, helped by his second wife, Helen, to write by dictation. He kept his courage and improved his prose; The Thirteen Clocks, his delightful tone poem and fairy story, was written when he could...
Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 is working closely with the HYRC on the project. He has told Alberg that Senators John S. Cooper (R-Kentucky), Hiram Long (R-Hawaii), and Kenneth Keating (R-N.Y.) have agreed to attend along with thirteen GOP Congressmen...