Lie detector tests history recapped amid shooting case
A reporter compiles a history of polygraph testing from ancient to modern times as Sgt Jack R Smith faces questions in Austin about his wife Nell Marie Smiths death by gunfire. The piece explains polygraph basics, its origins, and how the device records physiological responses to reveal truth or deception.
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Jack R. Smith
Nell Marie
Austin
Texas
Smith
August Vollmer
America
California
Vollmer
Leonardo Keeler
Keeler
Alva Johnston
Saturday Evening Post
Don’t Make It Easy On the Declarer
Oswald Jacoby analyzes a bridge hand from a recent team match to show how a fine player gives opponents chances to err. In both rooms West opens spades, declarer holds up, diamonds are misfinessed, and East cashes long spades before exiting with diamonds. West discards clubs in one room, testing declarer’s plan and judgment.
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Oswald Jacoby
NEA
West
Declarer
Miss Hannah Johns Finishes High School At 91
Leominster Massachusetts February 16 Miss Hannah Johns a Salvation Army worker for 25 years earned her high school diploma with the Leominster Evening High School class after two years of study. Her teacher Mrs Katherine Perry noted her only sign of age is being a mite deaf.
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Leominster
Mass
Hannah Johns
Salvation Army
Card play shows club misread in bridge contract
The article notes South misguesses the club situation after West discards one club and East discards two. West’s discard pattern influences South’s decision to play West for the queen of clubs, costing the contract. The contrast is that one West player made it easy for declarer while the other did not, not due to blunders.
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West
East
Queen of Clubs
Declarer
Underpass Plans Progress With Amarillo Meeting
Preliminary plans for widening the West Third Avenue underpass to 49 feet were discussed with city officials. W. Heimerdinger of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad will be in Amarillo Monday to review costs and proposals. The project ties to the city’s Fourth Avenue widening and a quarter dollar street improvement program. Henry County Illinois is called the hog capital of the world for its leading hog production.
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West Third Avenue
Rock Island Railway
W. ©. Heimerdinger
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Amarillo
Third Avenue
Western Avenue
Grand Avenue
Paralyzed Sailor Weds In Hospital Ward
Navy veteran Franklin L. Levasseur, paralyzed from the waist after a car crash, married Louise Garnet Cox in a General Hospital ward. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Carl Henry Koeker, with doctor’s note of a long recovery ahead. Levasseur, 30, and Cox, 35, spoke of enduring love despite uncertainty about walking again.
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Los Angeles
Franklin L. Levasseur
Levasseur
Louise Garnet Cox
General Hospital
Carl Henry Koeker
Donald R. MecMains
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