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From a sobbing, grey-haired little woman Agent Pieper got the story. The woman, Mary Foley, nursemaid in the home of wealthy Count Marc de Tristan, had been taking three-year-old Marc Jr. for a walk when a car drove up beside them. A black-a-vised, beak-nosed man leaped out, grabbed Marc, slugged her when she fought him, sped off with the child towards San Mateo...
...life of Eire's great Poet William Butler Yeats (died 1939, at 73) was a wild-goose chase after poetical wisdom-a chase that did not end before the goose was caught, cooked and eaten. How Yeats swallowed his bird-beak, bones and feathers-he has told in detail in his classic Autobiography. How the meal sat on his stomach is made plain in his motley, fearful, sometimes scabrous, more often superb Last Poems & Plays...
...Beak. The Irish are a people whose memory of wrongs is so ancient that their ideas about right tend to be either factional or mythical. From childhood up Yeats believed in Ireland's myths more than in its factions, believed also that the Irish, to become a self-respecting nation, would have to develop a literature so eloquent of truths about the Irish race that Irishmen would pore over its books with the intensity they customarily reserved for putting God's curse on the English and each other...
SIXTY-NINE DIAMONDS - Jeremy Lord -Crime Club ($2). Retired Col. Winston Creevy, arriving in La Jolla, Calif, for fun, can't keep his old British beak out of the murder of M. Duval, an unctuous Belgian with a past in the West End. In London the Yard detects furiously by cable. Creevy's end of it is subtler, and finely handled...
Soon after, a pale, lanky rural school superintendent, E. Ross Wyatt, 36, was jailed, charged under the involved Texas law with "burglary of a private residence at nighttime with intent to commit a felony; to wit, murder." For 16 months beak-faced Principal Wyatt languished in the Dallas jail; once, on the trial date, pneumonia reprieved him. Last week the "love-bomb" trial began. From Chicago flew 26-year-old Mary...