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...help, tries to find the dog, and plunges over a cliff to his death on the rocks. A veterinarian who is a thief kills an injured companion with an injection of poison as the man lies in bed. The dog is doped, but attacks a man. Two men kidnap a girl, then beat her." The show, said Mabley grimly, "was written and produced expressly for children and put on the air over the NBC network at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, so that it could catch all children ... It's frightening to see these five-and six-year-old tots...
Heinrich Oberjohann is a bring-'em-back-alive man, and he probably knows as much about elephants in the raw as anybody living. In the '30s, Animal Trader Carlo Hagenbeck sent him out to kidnap a few calves from the great herds which still roam the noxious swamps around Lake Chad, in North Central Africa. He lived for four years within scent of elephants -"I became an elephant myself." In Komoonl (Berberi dialect for elephant) he tells what it was like. Author Oberjohann is no scientist; some of his conclusions about the big animals will strain the faith...
...last year, Roe was the last lone operator; four gangsters tried to kidnap him, too. But his luck held. Roe, who habitually packed a pistol, got away, leaving a hoodlum named Leonard ("Fat Lennie") Caifano dead. Roe enjoyed life-he drove a Cadillac, wore $50 neckties, and lived in a flamboyant apartment which boasted a revolving television set and pastel-tinted telephones to match the color scheme of each room...
...woman on the street screamed; the driver of a light delivery truck started in pursuit. The thugs in the taxi fired several shots at the truck and sprinkled in their wake tetrahedrons (sharp-pointed military devices for puncturing enemy tires). As the kidnap car careened around the last curve before reaching the sector line, the Communist Volkspolizei, alerted and waiting, lifted their barrier, and the taxi sped through without stopping, bearing Dr. Linse into the sinister maw of East Berlin...
Meanwhile, General Hung Ho of the Nationalist headquarters talks nasally to a subordinate. "Comrade," he says, "if Bob Barkeley sends out Wang Tai's message to the American people, their legislature would have to take action. We would be ruined." The two conspirators decide to kidnap Wang. "In the confusion following his disappearance, we would be able to do . . . many things...