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...large part of the world which reads books, the immense world which functions behind the high woven wire fences of U.S. industry is almost as cryptic as the canals on Mars. First-Novelist Edward J. Nichols makes that world so lucid, so human, so interesting, that Sinclair Lewis' accolade seems none too generous: "I don't know any other novel that gets so deeply into this new and battling way of living that we call Industrialism...
...Cryptic note sent out by the Associated Press the night of Spangler's election: "In Spangler background, first graf, read it 'X X X one of those party wheel horses, etc.' (deleting 'ideal...
...uncommonly nice idea for a cinemystery - since the audience shares Meredith's amnesia, not only people but streets, windows, and noises can be loaded with cryptic threats. If those who made the picture had used these possibilities for all, instead of merely half, their worth, Street of Chance would have equaled Alfred Hitchcock's best scarifying tours-de-force. Street of Chance does not reach that high standard...
Pursuit. It was not easy. Sensing danger, Nazi spymasters in Hamburg had named all their agents in the Americas with nicknames. Intercepted messages referred to "Bach," to "Pedro," to "Apfel." But patiently, month after month, the cryptic messages were studied and compared, the machinations of the spies uncovered. It was found that "Bach" was Ludwig von Bohlen, Air Attache to the Santiago German Embassy. A woman, one Isabel Pederit, was found to be the spy-ring expert, charged with developing letters written in secret inks. These came to her from all over the Americas, and the information they contained...
Nightly a radio character called Symphony Sid, Your Narrator of Swing plugs the wares of half a dozen sponsors with such cryptic commercials. Lovers of swing tune in every evening on WHOM in Jersey City to listen to his After Hour Swing Session (11 p.m. to midnight, E.W.T...