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...readers had their best chance yet to get acquainted with him. Nora Wydenbruck's biography, the first to be published in the U.S., gives a good introduction to Rilke's poetry and his life. The story it tells is unearthly strange, more like the biography of a phantom than...
...cops first told Clifford Shephard that he was "the phantom forger" the day after they fingerprinted and mugged him. A slow-moving, heavy-jawed and trusting fellow, Shephard patiently smiled at their accusations, told them they'd find they were making a mistake. He was just a middle-aged salesman who lived in Scotch Plains, N.J., he explained, and, as a matter of fact, had just taken on a new line of liquid run-stopper for ladies' stockings...
Months later, when Shephard was reduced to selling rugs made by the blind because nobody else would trust his con's record, he got a wire from the Burns people. A check-passer of his general description, Edward Sullivan, the "phantom forger," had been picked up, they said. Shephard made his way to Wisconsin, where Sullivan had been sentenced, came face to face with a man of his same general build and coloring, his same long face and heavy jaw-but by'no means a twin in looks. The real "phantom" looked at photostats of the checks which...
...Under which freight charges were absorbed in order to meet competitive prices at distant points, and "phantom freight" was tacked on for nearer customers...
Lucky Strike Theater (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC-TV). Ella Raines in Phantom Lady...