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After the excitement of a stretch in the Gordon Highlanders during World War I, life in Scotland's coastal town of Perth seemed a dull prospect to young Bill Hutton. Instead of going home at war's end, he signed up with the Shanghai police. From time to time in the next 20 years, he would turn up on brief leave and let the Perth neighbors goggle at his strapping, soldierly bearing and his fierce military mustache. His father, old Bill Hutton, a railroad worker, seldom failed to point out the framed certificate on the wall awarding young...
...Young Hutton had annoyed the prison's commander, General Eiichi Kino-shita, by refusing to sign a statement that he had been humanely treated. The general turned him over to one Sergeant Bunzo Yoshida. Sometimes Yoshida's lessons would be taught with water, sometimes with electric shock, sometimes with just the butt of a rifle or the heel of a boot. Then one day Yoshida trussed his naked prisoner up with his head between his legs and his arms strapped behind him, and left him alone. Five days later his fellow prisoners found Hutton stark crazy. Next...
...still reeling, said the Star, from the news that tall, lissome Joanne Connelley was going to forgo her debut and get married instead. The man of her choice was Robert Sweeny, 37, an ex-amateur golf champion, ex-combat pilot, and onetime heavy beau of Babs Hutton and Lady Stanley...
What's Left? In Paris the traditional agent de police sketched by Bemelmans as a square-topped pyramid balanced on twin sticks, still stalked the streets in his cap and dark blue cape. The portly headwaiter too, who greeted both Barbara Hutton and Marshal von Brauchitsch with the same bow, had weathered the storm without a ruffle. Georges, the pander of the prewar underworld, had actually improved his status; he was now a respectable black-marketeer...
...cute platinum blonde: she has graduated into the actress category. Her bosses speak hopefully of "an amalgam of Harlow and Lombard," and are billing her as "the blonde bombshell." If she is not as bold as Harlow nor as brittle as Lombard, she is frequently as bouncy as Betty Hutton and as breezy as Grable. Even in repose, she is still a nifty blonde (5 ft. 4 in.) with bright, blue eyes...