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...failed to wreck the political alliance between the boss and the aristocrat. Ned Beaumont was used to fishy doings. He said little to anybody, but he went after the murderer on his own. That was nearly the end of Beaumont. How it all turned out is a story Author Hammett tells with raciness and verisimilitudinous realism. If you have any breath left afterwards you will probably use it to inquire for earlier Hammetts or to ask for more...
...Author. Like William Shakespeare, Dashiell Hammett has little Latin and less Greek, abandoned formal education in his first year of high school to be: a messenger boy. clerk in an advertising office, in a broker's office, timekeeper in a machine shop, stevedore, railroadman. But his chief job, at which he worked both before and after the War, was as a Pinkerton detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost...
Frederick Simonds Hammett, Philadelphia biochemist who has studied tissue growth for eleven years, decided after experiments on more than a million nuclei of tissue cells that a sulphur compound was directly responsible for tissue growth, that another sulphur compound was responsible for stagnation of tissue growth which comes with old age. His principle is universal, holds in the vegetable as well as in the animal kingdom...
...discovery, result of pure biological research, was put to test in a Philadelphia hospital. It was found that bed sores, ulcers, when treated with a simple sulphur compound, healed quickly. Only a few days, stated Dr. Hammett, were necessary to cure an ulcer on a Philadelphia bootlegger's foot. Brilliant are the possibilities suggested by this theory. Possibly, predicted some, it may solve the most mysterious of life processes...
Ellenborough--Hammett, Young v. Sanford--Bechtel, Harding...