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...best pro-Coolidge account of the Boston Police Strike of 1919, which rocketed Governor Coolidge to national fame. Biographer Fuess traces the most detailed account of Coolidge's pre-Presidential career, his rise from clerk in the Northampton, Mass, law office of Judge Field ("an inscrutable little devil," said the Judge) to his nomination as Vice President in 1920. (Fuess contends that Coolidge would have got the Presidential nomination except for Senator Lodge's sabotage. Said the aristocratic Senator: "Nominate a man who lives in a two-family house! Never!".) Fuess carefully assembles all the crabbed Coolidge wisecracks...
...PATIENCE OF MAIGRET-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two novelettes by a fantastic Frenchman. Inspector Maigret waits while subordinates make the hue and brass hats foam and fret. And presently the guillotine snicks a cervix or Devil's Island claims another Gaul...
Gustaf grew up on the family estate at Louhisaari, of which Sophia's biographer wrote: "The ceiling of the Church salon is decorated with paintings depicting Admiral Klaus Fleming's sea battles, while the murals of the Devil's Chamber depict a mellower 18th-Century splendor. . . . The park and gardens are especially well planned and cared for. . . . Behind the park glittered the bay of the sea. . . . That this kind of childhood home engendered refinement and sensitivity to beauty in its inhabitants is natural...
Gustaf (who probably liked the Devil's Chamber better than the Church salon) was packed off to the Hamina Cadet School at the age of 14 and immediately established himself as a leader. He went on to the Nikolaev Cavalry School in Russia proper and came out a second lieutenant in 1889, aged 22. Two years later he wangled a transfer to the Tsar's Chevalier Guard. After his marriage to Anastasia, daughter of Major General Nikolai Arapov of the Tsar's suite, Lieutenant Mannerheim's advance was rapid. He became a first lieutenant...
HELL ON TRIAL-René Belbenoif-Dutton ($3). No Dreyfus, but an exceedingly tenacious gadfly, the famed fugitive of Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine) here adds further smelly details about life in the French penal colony. He also deals with allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their...