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...last ideal cracks like a bone when his friend and adviser, a dedicated artist named Goddard Quagmeyer, sells out to Hollywood, puts on a purple beret, salmon-colored suit, orange ascot, pink shirt, and develops nine simultaneous tics. He is further disillusioned when he meets the president of Charnel House, a publisher with a marked resemblance to Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf, who announces: "Harry Hubris and I have never met vis-a-vis, but in the aristocracy of success there are no strangers." In the end, the Yalie is so corrupted that he slips a $500,000 bribe...
...station and were methodically mowed down by automatic weapons in the hands of paratroops and police. A Luanda cab driver told reporters that he saw five trucks loaded with corpses driven out to a mass burial in the bush. The prison attacked in earlier rioting still "stank like a charnel house" even after being cleared of dead bodies, said one Angolan. While tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets at night and Portuguese gunboats and planes combed the coastline, a doctor said wearily, "I don't know how much more of this I can stand. Every night we deal...
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...that damned Palmer dosed my grog, for a lark." He was dead a week later. Soon there were whispers about the deaths of 13 other people who had been connected with Palmer: patients, drinking companions, relatives, his wife (a possible suicide). The literary-minded might make cracks about "The Charnel House of Palmer." But Graves maintains stoutly that Palmer "never killed nobody," was the victim of prejudice and circumstantial evidence in the Cook case. In other hands this story might be merely one of those Sunday-supplement series called "Did Justice Err?" But Old Pro Graves has written a fine...
More than all the heaped bones in all the charnel camps of Hitler's Germany, such uncomplicated words as these from the diary of a sensitive little Jewish girl named Anne Frank are making many Germans conscious of the enormity of the crimes they once condoned. Her poignant, posthumously published and dramatized diary became a hit play in scores of German cities as well as in the U.S. She herself, dead at 15, lies buried in a mass grave at Belsen, 50 miles south of Hamburg, where some 25,000 of her fellow Jews died in the last...