Books: Blood & Bones

THE BREATHLESS MOMENT — The World's Most Sensational News Photos— Knopf ($3).

This book will provide one more meal of blood & bones for that sector of the U. S. public which feasts on gruesome newspictures. Philip Van Doren Stern hunted high & low through press morgues for the most gushy examples of tabloid journalism. For photographs selected by their death-&-disaster appeal Herbert Asbury has written brief captions to explain the what, why, where, when, who.

Purchasers of this gaudy red volume will have within one set of covers such sensational camera trophies as: Ruth Snyder...

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