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CONCRETE CRIME, by Manning Coles (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.95), places Tommy Hambledon, the British Foreign Office's top raincoat man, in grave danger of being submersed in a barrel of water, sand, and quick-hardening cement. But the henchman who intends to put him there makes a false hench, and guess who ends in the barrel? The trail leads to Paris, then Dijon and points worse. Author Coles's story is diverting enough, even if some of his swashes are carelessly buckled...
Great Day. A black pennant, the designated symbol of surrender, flew from the highest mast of each ship when the Italia, Vittorio Veneto, five of the cruisers and four of the destroyers passed the British destroyer Hambledon off Malta. Aboard the Hambledon were two interested observers: General Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, naval victor of the Mediterranean. A.P. Correspondent Clark Lee, who was also aboard the Hambledon, got the impression that Admiral Cunningham would have admired the Italians more if they had been at battle stations, fighting it out. But, said the Admiral...
WITHOUT LAWFUL AUTHORITY - Manning Coles - Crime Club ($2). A prewar adventure in Nazi spy-chasing with Tommy Hambledon, hero of Drink to Yesterday, etc., sharing honors with a vengeful ex-Tank Corps officer and a debonair safecracker. Explosive action all the way, with a pitched battle in an English insane asylum to top it off. For spy-story enthusiasts, this...
...TOAST To TOMORROW-Manning Coles-Crime Club ($2). The deputy chief of the German Police in 1933 recovers from amnesia to remember he is actually Hambledon of British Intelligence in World War I. Thereafter "Klaus Lehmann" spies to end all spying, raises hell with German war plans. Timely, well done and not very corny...
...year on July 9, 10 and 11 was founded in 1839, and the regatta of 1895 will be the fifty-seventh annual. The races are rowed on the Thames, up stream, from just above Regatta Island to a point near Henley Bridge. The start is about a mile above Hambledon Lock, and the finish nearly the same distance below Marsh Lock, the whole stretch of water, from lock to lock, being 3 3/16 miles. The course is one mile and five-sixteenths in length. The first mile is nearly straight, with a little point jutting out at Rememham, but near...
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