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...Story. The military coup which sent Castillo back into obscurity had, in proud Argentina, all the earmarks of a revolt in a banana republic. Early one morning 7,000 troops moved out of the Campo de Mayo barracks to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Led by General Arturo Rawson and General Pedro Ramirez, who had been Minister of War in Castillo's Cabinet, the troops fired a few shots at the city's outskirts, turned down the Calle Blandengues until they reached the Palermo race track. There newsboys were already hawking editions of Noticias Graficas, which headlined: "REVOLUTION...
...boxers were all in good shape and gave their fans plenty to shout about. The fights were all fast and hard fought, and many of the bouts saw some line boxing. Tom Rawson, a former lightweight and son of the boxing coach at MIT, was the referees...
Nicholas Van Slyck '44 will give a piano recital which will include one of his own works, a complete sonata in one movement, on Sunday afternoon at 89 Rawson Road, Brookline...
...COFFIN FOR THE CORPSE-Clayfon Rawson-Little, Brown & Co. ($2). A rich spiritualism devotee sees the ghost of a blackmailer he slugged and buried, and is later himself found slain in the locked and weaponless room of a Mamaroneck mansion. Merlini, an ex-magician with a vast fund of illusionistic lore and rare deductive skill, enters the case to help a much-involved reporter friend and remains to produce a subtle and unsuspected slayer. Superabundant-and engrossing- data about spirits, fakirs and magic slightly retard the movement of an otherwise excellent story...
...HEADLESS LADY-Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Merlini, magician, can't let circuses or murders alone. Visiting the Hannum Bros. show, he starts to prove the owner's fatal car smashup a homicide. Then State troopers find a decapitated brunette in his own car. Lots of Big-Top jargon...