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...would have distressed King George, it would have made the good man wince, if His Majesty had heard and believed reports current in Wall Street, Thread-needle Street and on the Paris Bourse that a secret deal had in fact been made between the Italian and British Governments (see col. i). In the United Kingdom no hint of this reached the mass of voters who must ballot before this time next year in General Election...
Bedside bulletins indicated that this ticklish operation went off satisfactorily last week. For a few months Princess Mary's neck will show a thin red line, thereafter a thread of scar almost impossible to discern...
...Another put a mattress and a clean sheet on a long wooden table, a couple of wooden buckets alongside and on a side table a basin of warm water. Handy were the heavy knives and other instruments Dr. McDowell operated with, the bayonet-like needles, silver suture wire, waxed thread for ligatures. Nothing was sterilized, for Lister's and Pasteur's work was still 60-70 years in the future...
...Every thread of the case had been laid bare last week by Swiss Prosecutor Anton Ganz working in London with Scotland Yard and in Paris with the Surete Nationale. Jacob is a German, a Jew and an undistinguished journalist who has done articles critical of Nazidom for English papers. In London a certain Dr. Hans Wesemann, believed by Swiss last week to head an international kidnap & murder ring operating for the German Government, arranged for Jacob to go from his home in Strasbourg to Basle, Switzerland on promise of pay for further free-lance work. On the night of March...
Woven into the fabric of complex New York City is the scarlet thread of bastardy which Dr. Ruth Reed of Indiana University has been unraveling for three years. Last week she reached a point where she could tell the metropolis just what sort of women bear bastards...