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Last week, just 200 days after their first meeting at Brenner Pass, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met there again. The snow would soon begin to creep down the slopes of the Wolfendorn and Sattelberg, but that day a bright sun shone on the flower-and-flag-strewn station, made dust specks dance above the red carpets that led from Il Duce's luxurious parlor car to the Führer's austere private coach. At 11 a.m. Signor Mussolini, who had been reviewing a regiment of 6-foot Sicilians, walked to Herr Hitler...
...letter he dropped in his flight was found in the street. The police gave the press the text of it. The sinister politeness of the abductor's letter, which requested the sum of $100,000, made newspaper readers' flesh creep...
Also given were the exact latitude and longitude of the capsule's well, calculated to less than an inch. In case the latitude and longitude figures should be falsified by continental creep, directions were given for locating the capsule with electromagnetic finders...
...first 18 holes, during high wind and rain, Haverstick led the way. At lunch time he was 4 up on Brooke. When they returned for the second 18, Brooke began to creep up until he pulled even at the 27th. At the 29th, the Virginia Creeper was down again. At the 35th the match was all even once more; a 17-ft putt would put Brooke in front, with only one more hole to play. Looking heavenward in supplication, Brooke spied a rainbow arching over gloomy Mt. Equinox. "I've got a rainbow round my shoulder...
...hands a la Muni would have presented a sad caricature of both Messrs. Muni and Ehrlich. But Robinson steers clear of the trodden path and creates a character of his own, convincingly and effectively. Lastly, a word should be said about the magnificent color photography of syphilis bugs, which creep surreptitiously over the screen and make your flesh creep...