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...auto biography (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952), Koestler started chasing after his "arrow in the blue." He was pursuing "the absolute cause, the magic formula which would produce the Golden Age." In Europe of 1931, such sad Sagittarii were foredoomed to Communism: duly, at 26, the Hungarian ex-duelist, ex-Zionist and perpetual student joined the party that promised to heal all wounds, including inferiority complexes. The Invisible Writing tells the next stage of Koestler's intellectual vaga bondage, through the labyrinthine ways of Marxism, to safe harbor in London, where he will "live happily ever after, until the Great...
...Peale had the presence of mind to call after them an order to fall out. Also, he made warm boots for his men in winter. But if they loved him, the enemy had little reason to fear him. He became a pacifist who passionately hated war and dueling (any duelist, he remarked, "stinks ... as much while living as he would in four days after being shot...
...Duelist. All week long, in the somber, paneled office in Tokyo's DaiIchi Building once occupied by Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander Ridgway had directed the moves, as cool and poised as a duelist. Outside his office, the busy buzzers and flashing lights resembled a pinball machine. At every flash or buzz, an aide shot into action...
...they did. However, all such questions are swamped in slick-fiction formula. A fiery redhead (Susan Hayward) gets crippled for no good reason and for no good reason gets fixed up again. Her fiance, the swine mentioned above, runs off with her sister (Julie London). An intrepid editor and duelist (Van Heflin) waits Redhead out and finally gets...
...Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then a mob attacked me," said the victim. Currently the most popular Cuban is Senator Eddy Chibas, ardent duelist and once Grau's close friend, who fills the air every Sunday night with rasping radio attacks on "the Government of dishonesty and indignity...