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This week the Russians made sure of Dietl's preoccupation by probing his defenses far above the Arctic Circle. Thirty miles from the Red lines lay the border of Norway and beyond, the rich nickel mines that are an essential part of the German war economy. Dietl had better hold fast at Norway's back door. The Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus were likely to have to shift for themselves...
...Clamper. But the troubles of "Dear Charley" were not so much with Author Twain as with Inventor Twain and Businessman Twain-who never had made a nickel except by writing and publishing. From the publishing house Twain was reaping $100,000 a year-and pouring most of it into his inventions. There was Kaolatype (a chalk process for engraving). It had been going nowhere for years. There was the Twain bed clamp, designed to keep babies from getting wound up in the covers. It was Editor Webster, then an infant, who proved it unpractical. Nothing ever came...
...students promptly took her at her word and abandoned their food as she came down the stairs to sell her famous miniature nickel-plated batches. Students pressed around her, offering her cigars and cigarettes, and feigning great surprise when she struck, their smokes wrathfully to the ground. One student made a grab at her bonnet, but was unable to detach...
...Broadway movie house. The climb began in 1920 when Ormandy, then a moderately gifted European concert violinist, arrived in Manhattan with a contract for a $30,000 concert tour, found that both the $30,000 and the impresario had vanished. Ormandy was down to his last nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy played second fiddle so well that he was soon solo violinist of the original Roxy Gang. He graduated from gangdom...
...convicts from Devil's Island who want to fight on our team, and the plot is almost unwound before the film gets around to the actual passage to Marseille. We can't remember having heard the story before: it's about a French freighter carrying a valuable shipment of nickel, and also carrying fascists and democrats who struggle for control of the freight...