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...Reinhardt day by day watched Chinese guards lead away some of his companions to be executed, waited for his own turn to come. It never did. Instead "a very beautiful young lady, wrapped in furs" guided Herr Reinhardt and cell mates to two waiting limousines, sped them to a hideout, kept them supplied with food. Later the Consul learned that his rescuer was a Jewish girl friend of late potent Bolshevik Grigory Zinoviev (né Radomyslsky, purged August...
...waters. Slowly the ship cruised off the coast of Florida, barely making way, sometimes steaming in aimless circles, until President Laredo Bru relented, 22 days after the St. Louis left Hamburg. He announced that they would be permitted to land temporarily on the Isle of Pines, ancient pirate hideout 50 miles south of Cuba. Next day, the refugees having failed to get the financial guarantees that President Laredo Bru had demanded, he changed his mind, again prohibited them from landing...
...20th Century has been the bloodiest. . . . Our contemporary art mortalizes the immortals . . . is sexually crazy and often sadistic. The We Kiss and Angels Sing, Heaven Can Wait and This Is Paradise of the crooners are examples. . . . Contemporary art . . . is centred around the police morgue, a criminal's hideout or the sex organs...
Earl Durand watched the posse come up the canyon and cautiously encircle his hideout. After a time, two riflemen (Orville Linabary, 42; Arthur Argento, 46) started across a clearing directly toward him. They had their nerve with them. He let them come within 50 paces, then quickly gave them each a bullet in the belly. None of the other possemen dared show himself, not even to get the dead. The canyon fell silent. Day died...
When he was found after a long hunt it was in no mountain hideout, no rebel garret, no desert shack-but in the toils of a wealthy and voluptuous Hollywood has-been, Lia Tora by name. Last week Senhor Valverde was back in jail, with a probable 17-year hard-labor sentence (instead of the previous eight and one-half) before him. Also in jail, charged with furnishing him asylum, was pretty Lia Tora. And Brazil's men of justice were scratching their heads over what hard labor to set her soft, shapely arms a-doing for a possible...