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...Reisner was able somehow to build, and bequeath to the University, his extensive mystery collection. Because his secretary asked that British and American troops in Egypt be allowed to read the books, Harvard did not receive Reisner's bequest until 1945. Although the story that it was expecting a shipment of soberminded treatises seems dubious, Widener's cataloguers were surprised to discover that about a fifth of the novels had been graded, much as term papers are graded by professors in Cambridge...
Conveniently flung together by hard luck, the four men head through Apache country to find a Southern trader who may know the whereabouts of 2,000 carbines stolen from a U.S. Cavalry shipment. En route they brawl and bicker, drink and debauch in a rugged Old West that appears to be crawling with bandidos, prostitutes and sadistic savages. They add an Indian girl to their retinue, a sensible primitive who talks little and doesn't keep any of the fellows awake nights...
...secret German field headquarters, let top officers believe that the U.S. might enter the war unless they permitted him to bring in food for starving Belgians. In London and Paris, he warned the French and English of likely U.S. indignation unless they eased their blockade to facilitate such shipments. After such tactics succeeded, Hoover supervised the shipment of a billion dollars worth of food and clothing to Belgium, directed a fleet of 60 cargo ships and 400 barges, crossed the mine-filled North Sea 40 times himself...
...disguised a score of Marseille cops as everything from priests and petanque players to taxi drivers and dockers, often had them make quick changes at midday while they shadowed Cesari and his henchmen. Several times they discovered raw morphine on incoming freighters ticketed to Cesari's hirelings (one shipment was packed in a carton of snails). But the police were unable to catch Cesari manufacturing heroin-until a laborer named Albert Veran laid out $15,000 for an old stone farmhouse last...
...injunction on Alabama's well-guarded George Wallace, for example, one deputy marshal stowed away in the men's room aboard the Governor's plane. Marshals have been called upon to seize entire businesses, not to mention stolen art works and such other oddments as a shipment of "Helene Curtis Magic Secret Wrinkle-Smoothing Skin Lotion...