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Saturday afternoon, with dusk coming on, Panama's mild-mannered President Daniel Chanis screwed up his courage to summon Colonel Jos´ ("Chichi") Remón, chief of national police, for a painful interview. The press had been pounding hard with charges of police grafting in the control of slaughterhouse and bus-line operations. After the latest blast in the Panama American, Chanis had made his decision: Remón must...
Just how ailing, uncertain President Chanis expected to bring the trick off was something of a mystery. Remón, the strong man and orderkeeper for every Panama administration since 1946, was in effect chief of staff of the nation's only armed force, the highly trained 2,000-man police corps. He and a staff of fanatically loyal aides had absolute control of the modern police headquarters, a combination fortress, arsenal, barracks, radio communications center and model jail (known locally as the Hotel Remón). By contrast, the only force directly at the President's disposal...
...Josef Scharl's simple, powerful Gethsemane. A head-on study of the Agony in the Garden, it had the human impact and the somber, Protestant force (but not the masterful painting) of a Christ by Rem brandt...
...career, The Netherlands was entering its "Golden Age" under the able stadtholder. Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau. And Amsterdam was the golden city of the Dutch. Their armies were the crack fighting force of Europe. Their sea captains were preparing to smash Spain, rival Britain. All about him Rem brandt saw a young nation of tradesmen, sailors and soldiers, the litter of trophies brought home from the Orient...
...writers have written their rem-iniscences? they have other fish to fry. But it is more as a successful money-making woman than as a writer that Mary Roberts Rinehart has told, in My Story, more than even an insatiably curious public either desires or deserves. As a series of magazine articles (My Story ran serially in Good Housekeeping) it has its points; .as a 432-page book it makes scrappy and sometimes downright dull reading...