Word: kinross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victim of an automobile accident in New Bedford, Mass., in which four other people were injured, Stanley Safian '46, of New York City and 17 Kinross Road, Brighton, died late yesterday afternoon in Acushnet Hospital as a result of injuries suffered when the car in which he was riding left the road. He had left Brighton earlier in the day to have Thanksgiving dinner with friends in New Bedford...
...story starts at the end instead of the beginning, with a superbly realistic sea battle near Crete. Captain Edward Kinross (Coward) and his flotilla send a Nazi convoy to the bottom well aware that they will probably soon follow their victims. Says Coward, drinking cocoa after the battle, to his signal officer...
First the Dorniers, then dive-bombers roar down for the kill, and Captain Kinross' ship goes down with more than half her crew. Then, while the Captain and a few sailors, covered with fuel oil and sprayed with machine-gun bullets, cling precariously to a raft in the scummy water, the camera flashes back to tell the whole story of the ship...
...EMPEROR'S SNUFF BOX-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). How a harassed and suggestible young Englishwoman was saved from almost certain conviction as the slayer of her fiance's father by the supershrewd deductions of Dr. Kinross, specialist in criminal psychology. A brilliant exercise in detecting, a chilling adventure in careful, cold-blooded villainy, a sterling bit of craftsmanship even though one important bit of evidence is held back...