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...professor and his wife on vacation, an effete young man eloping with a millionairess, a big-shot racketeer's little son in care of one of the mob, a tough girl on the lam from her past, an anarchist returning to his homeland gallows with a captor to whom he means a $5,000 reward...
...Over China contains a brief, complicated but convincing account of the Sian Mutiny. Last week a detailed study of this affair was published by Snow's sub-correspondent James Bertram (FIRST ACT IN CHINA, Viking, $3) which gives a sympathetic portrait of The Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. captor of Chiang Kaishek...
...raids into enemy country, are described with a light and mocking air, as if they were little more than schoolboy pranks. Lawrence evidently treasured all human life except his own. He was constantly testing his personal courage. When he was captured on a spying venture, indecently approached by his captor, tortured and beaten, he was gratified that even in his extreme pain he had remembered to cry out in Arabic...
...characters, accompanies the career of Smoky, a range-loving mustang who becomes leader of his herd by outfacing a mountain lion. After being trained to the saddle by broncho-busting Clint (Victor Jory), Smoky is stolen and beaten by a cowhand he once threw. At length he stamps his captor to death, heads for the open range. Clint gives him up for lost, goes away to be a meatpacker. Captured, Smoky becomes successively a rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag. Just as he ambles into a slaughterhouse he is found again by Clint and shipped back...
...athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north China. He picked the growing Nationalist movement as the coming power in China, gave it money and support. His nemesis was wily Old Chang Tso-lin of Manchuria, captor of Peiping in 1926, always an enemy of the Soviet. Leo Karakhan was recalled to Moscow, but in no disgrace. Stalin knew how near he had come to succeeding...