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...allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their fugitive ranks, for example, was recruited the international white-slave ring, operating chiefly in South America, which the League of Nations felt obliged to investigate...
With best-seller and lecture profits, Author Belbenoit a year ago bought a house on Long Island, married an American, increased his weight from 97 to his normal 110 lbs. But last week, defeated in his fight to win U. S. asylum, he was again a fugitive, somewhere in Central America...
...wind, spurted ahead of Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents. And among non-fiction best-sellers Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People wobbled out of first place, was crowded hard for third by two newcomers, Edward Ellsberg's Hell on Ice and Rene Belbenoit's Dry Guillotine...
...that Dry Guillotine was "heavy with unrelieved nightmare." I finally read it and now walk on air, feeling "What a piece of work is man!"-ish and convinced that among yeggmen, politicians, editors and college freshmen there may be-must be-something of the spirit that carried Rene Belbenoit to his goal...
...TIME'S reviewer no reproof: He did not say Belbenoit wrote a bad book. Stranded in San Francisco last July, René Belbenoit wrote Explorer William LaVarre in Manhattan, who took him East, arranged for publication of his book. His first job was to pass on the accuracy of Devil's Island scenes in The Life of Emile Zola. If he gets a pardon from the French Government, as he hopes, ex-Convict Belbenoit plans to go back to France, return to the U. S. under the quota...