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Partisan Primo Camera, after killing dozens of Germans, was executed by the Nazis. Last fall, hale & hearty, non-Partisan Camera broadcast over Stern's show. Another time they heard that Abraham Lincoln's dying words, breathed to Colonel Abner Doubleday, inspired him to invent baseball, and that Thomas A. Edison's deafness came about after he was beaned in a ball game by Pitcher Jesse James...
HANDBOOK FOR SPIES (273 pp.)-Alexander Foote-Doubleday...
...WELL OF THE PAST (221 pp.)-Charles Norman-Doubleday...
...WANTED TO WRITE (471 pp.)-Ken-nefh Roberts-Doubleday...
...three months he traveled 3,000 miles, for the Satevepost, wrote four articles, went through 73 historical source books and wrote the first 60,000 words of his first novel "on trains, in railway stations, in hotel rooms, and occasionally worked all night." With a contract from Publisher Russell Doubleday in his pocket, he went to Italy to write, hung a schedule on the wall beside his bed: "Write a chapter every 4 days; write 1⅓⅓pages (1,500 words) every day for 120 days...