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Kudos for a brave, succinct July 30 report of Santo Domingo groaning under Dictator Trujillo. I was in Port-au-Prince in 1938 when I heard of the incredible butchery of innocent Haitians ... I viewed the remains of hundreds of slain men, women and children at the uncharted Haiti-Santo Domingo border...
...Italian front in December 1944, word reached OSS headquarters in Siena that Major William V. Holohan, chief of a secret mission far behind the German lines, had disappeared; the Army marked him down as one more brave man lost in the service of his country. Last week, 6½ years later, the Defense Department explained Major Holohan's disappearance: it was cold-blooded murder by four of his subordinates. The Defense Department's story was backed up point by point by the confessions of three of the accused men and by the recovery of Holohan's poisoned...
...immense 30-ft. creation, emerged from a gaping cave in front-center (instead of from a miserable little hole to one side, as at the conventional Met). Fafner was so terrible in his oversize plungings and snortings that, probably for the first time in history, Siegfried seemed really brave to tackle...
Where the clubs get touchy is in the matter of quality. Both the Guild and B-o-M started with brave promises. Early in the game, B-o-M Founder Harry Scherman offered readers "the outstanding book published each month"; in practice, this led to the selection of such books as Rol-vaag's Giants in the Earth, Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln, Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. The club's sights have come down a bit. A B-o-M choice is now just a book that the club's five judges* happen to "like...
...trembling lips belong to Catherine Villars, quadroon concubine of Pirate Jean Lafitte. It takes a brave man to meet her advances-in Lafitte's own Gulf of Mexico island hangout, but no one can accuse Louisiana's Jim Bowie of lacking nerve. Besides, Lafitte is dead drunk at the mo-mert. As for Catherine, who can blame her? Bowie is a bluff, broad-shouldered god, at once bold and gracious, a fighting terror whose terrible knife is to become a frontier legend, yet so gentle that a woman's touch makes him tremble...