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...maque. In 1939 a diver, wallowing through the mud at the Seine's bottom, reached blindly into a barrel in the sunken hulk and came up with a fistful of gold louis. His employers decided to bring up the brig whole. They slung cables under the wreck and hauled away, but when the slimy mess at last came to the surface, it consisted of only the forward part of the brig. The after part, presumably containing the treasure, still lurked on the bottom. By that time, Hitler's armies were bearing down on France, and the salvage operation...
...economics were shaky but his performance was superb. It ran the gamut-cajoling, coercing, counseling, wheedling, joking, jeering. Enjoying the performance more than anyone was his chief target, Winston Churchill, who sat, fingertips touching with his hands slung between his knees, smiling benignly, occasionally rising to the bait in high good humor. Churchill, roared Bevan, "is not fit for his office." At this point Churchill interrupted to observe smoothly that Bevan was obviously still smarting from Churchill's wartime description of him: "a squalid nuisance...
...wrinkling, yellowing and harmful effects of some laundry bleaches. ¶Chrysler Corp. rolled out a sleek blue, six-passenger experimental sport car, whose hard-top body was made by Italy's Carrazzeria Ghia. Built on a 125-inch wheelbase (v. 145-2-for Chrysler Crown Imperials), the low-slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped up from 180 to 310; the car can do 150 m.p.h. Added feature: a spare tire that can be swung out easily from the trunk compartment...
...Cisitalia (Italy): a sleek, low-slung car with a grill resembling "the cut end of a cigar...
When the smugglers have gone, Johnnie starts to skedaddle home, and accidentally tweaks off the corpse's beard, whereupon he notices a locket slung around the fleshless neck. Inside the locket is a ciphered message that leads, after two murders and a mort of escapes and chases, to a diamond "as big as a pigeon's egg" that lies hidden in the wall of an ancient well in Caris-brooke Castle. Thence away to a fence for such merchandise in The Hague, who cheats poor Johnnie out of his diamond and lands him aboard a brig bound...