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...heard a thud on the mat and looked up. Bob Ogden was rubbing his left shoulder. "Was that an Uchi-Mata?" he asked his opponent, foigning civility...
...Operational guided-missile squadrons, stationed in Germany (TIME, Jan. 25), ready to use the ground-to-ground Mata dor as necessary...
Among devotees of espionage, World War I is memorable for its many women agents. Not the best, but the most glamorous female spy was Mata Hari (Eye of the Morning), who claimed to be a half-caste Javanese temple dancer, but who was in fact the daughter of a solid, middle-class Dutch family. Mata Hari, for ten years France's most famed courtesan, was recruited into German intelligence as Agent H. 21 . She managed to send information out of wartime Paris through smitten neutral diplomats. In 1917, when a French military court confronted her with evidence that...
...Headmaster. With Rahab, Walsingham, Richelieu, Fouche, Stieber and Mata Hari, Allen Welsh Dulles has little in common except his job. A tall, husky (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) man who wears rimless spectacles and conservative clothes. Allen Dulles is an unmistakable product of that nearly extinct patrician society which dominated New York and New England before World War I. With his booming laugh, bouncy enthusiasm, and love of competitive sports, Dulles is uncannily reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt. He has the young-old look of a college student made up as Daddy Long Legs in the class play...
Besides romance, Never Wave at a WAC offers some wacky comedy. The society girl is assigned as a guinea pig to rigorous tests of arctic uniforms supervised by her ex-husband. The not-too-bright stripteaser, who wants to be a Mata Hari, finally gets a job as a chauffeur for intelligence...