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Signal. In Los Angeles, Barbara Brod put a hand out of her car window to signal a left turn, attracted the attention of a gunman who jumped on the running board and relieved her of a $3,000 diamond ring...
FRANZ KAFKA (236 pp.)-Max Brod -Schocken...
Says Biographer Brod: "Of all believers [Kafka] was the freest from illusions, and among all those who see the world as it is, without illusions, he was the most unshakable believer...
...Brod recalls that when Kafka read to friends the opening chapters of The Trial (the story of a man crucified by inches), they laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks, and Kafka himself laughed so hard he could not go on reading. It is, says Novelist Thomas Mann solemnly, "very deep-rooted and involved" humor. Kafka's cosmic comedy of man's foredoomed failure in his quest for God is brought down to earth and up to the minute by the use (in The Trial and The Castle) of all the adventitious paraphernalia of 20th Century living...
Bombs for Everybody. Twice within a week the Fifteenth attacked the important railway center of Zagreb; other attacks centered on the port of Spalato (Split) and the inland town of Brod, headquarters of a Nazi tank corps. But these jobs were only part of a busy week's work for the Fifteenth Air Force...