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Young Mrs. Roger Horan had life by the tail. Everybody said she looked like Linda Darnell-and she did. Everybody said her three children were bright and beautiful. They were. Her pin-clean apartment in ugly, teeming Astoria, across the East River from Upper Manhattan, was not so bad, considering the housing pinch. And her husband...
...accord between Nationalists and Communists might break. From the river last week, Todd could hear bugle calls and see the dust of marching columns as the Nationalists reinforced their Manchuria garrisons. He feared that one side or the other might attempt to blow up his dikes in order to pin the blame on the opposition. But if he won his race, millions would live to bless Oliver Todd as millions had blest old Emperor Yu, who tamed the Yellow River (temporarily) 4243 years ago, in China's Golden...
After 18 months he was offered freedom if he would seduce a notorious Austrian spy, bring her back to Venice. He consented, set forth, arrived to find the spy was Henriette. She had been doing a little spying all along, she confessed, to earn pin money, and enough to recover her family estate...
Beside a pyramidal concrete blockhouse with 10-ft. walls and a roof 35 ft. thick stood a German V-2 rocket, sleek, 46 ft. tall, bright yellow and black, with a German pin-up girl painted on its side. Its four tail-fins rested on an adjustable platform, and a tall crane held it steady...
...with a head full of Varga girls might not have much time for reading contracts. Peru-born Alberto Vargas, slight, black-mustached creator of Esquire's pin-up girls, claims that he signed his without reading it. He further claims that his trusted employer said, "This is one contract you can sign with your eyes closed...