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Humor. Just as Americans know Superman and Mickey Mouse, Germans know Kohlenklau (Coal Pincher), a funny-looking but evil kobold. His creator, egg-bald Berlin Cartoonist Hans Landwehrmann, endowed him with a bushy walrus mustache, a saucy apache cap. The little robber carries a huge thief's sack, crams into it precious fuel and food wasted by careless Germans...
...dashing Morgan or Gates tradition is President James Brents Hill, 63. A penny pincher, he peppers his 26,600 employes with "president's messages" on thrift and courtesy. He once told employes to conserve pencils because L. & N. had to haul 1,887 lb. of freight a mile...
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There are far more characters which will be remembered in the "Mystic isles" than the author discovered in the marquesas. Derelicts from all countries, a Russian noble and merchant, "Lying Bill" Pincher, and old sea captain and scores of others from many ports. Mr. O'Brien make friends with them all, setting them down faithfully and realistically. Indeed "Lying Bill" Pincher was so well described that the original has sued the author for libel...