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...owner of the Fun Fair also owns dance halls and nightclubs, manages a mob of burglars and gunmen. He teaches Ernie the fine points of burglary, but the boy, an inept pupil, is arrested after the smashup of a stolen car in which he is riding. The police discover Ernie's mother is a fence (she dies the next day from cancer). Ada decides to marry her gangster boss. The novel ends with Ernie deter mined "to get His own back on the lot of them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling...
...born in 1514) and his book. But, war or no war, the Medical Library Association has now printed a Vesalius Number of its Bulletin. The majestic, often astounding full-page delineations of skeletons, muscles, veins and viscera found in the Fabrica* are generally attributed to Jan van Calcar, Flemish pupil of Titian. But Andreas Vesalius, to a certain extent an unscrupulous self-promoter, brought his book out with no credit to his collaborator...
Positively Necessary Urge. Later, as an instructor (he trained Colin Kelly), Scott learned to study every pupil to see if he had the "positively necessary . . . urge for combat." To his surprise he discovered that "many of them still thought it was wrong to want to get in the air against an enemy," were content just to fly for airlines. When not flying or teaching, Scott collected orchids-"these beautiful plants" -which he grows for a hobby...
...past glories, he espoused the cult of Romanism. He fancied himself a new Julius Caesar, was courted by the world's big shots, loved to be called leonine and at the same time "father of his people." He helped Adolf Hitler to power, was mastered by his pupil. Trapped by his own illusions of grandeur, he led his people into war in an unholy alliance with Germany and Japan. By 1943 he had lost his Empire, and Allied bombs and bayonets threatened to chase him into...
Teacher and pupil reached the lobby floor of Melbourne's Hotel Menzies in the same elevator. The door opened. Van Atta retreated to let the General out first...