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Timely cashing-in on the kidnapping epidemic, wherein the "phoney"' disappearance of a banker becomes real. In his fortified Park Avenue penthouse, a dozen others, guards and guarded, fret, stab and shoot, the good finally departing over the corpses...
...darkness like some hideous appartion in a nightmare. Suddenly there was a dead silence, and then a muttered "ah." Back in the musty corridors there was a swishing sound and slowly a black object appeared. The figure walked back and forth dragging heavy objects, stopping and cringing at every stab of lightning. Eight, nine, ten lifeless emaciated bodies of human beings formed a pyramid on the floor...
...waggled a steel drive at an imaginary golf ball. "I can tell you one thing: I'll certainly enjoy business more than books. If there's anything I hate, it's to sit down and study the theory of economics. I may come back next spring and have another stab at the general, but I doubt it. Hey, where's my putter...
...interne told me that he was dismissed for writing descriptions of beaten patients on the hospital charts. There were 15 serious Jewish cases in his own ward. Jews beaten until injured for life, one nearly blind, one who had to be sent to an insane asylum, one with many stab wounds in his arm, another shot through the leg many times...
After dinner in Daytona, he felt a sudden stab of pain in his abdomen, thought it was indigestion. He took some soda, paced about the hotel corridors with his wife. Later that night a doctor found the Senator's blood pressure was 182, with symptoms of angina pectoris. Advised to stay over and go to bed, Mr. Walsh replied that he had to get on to Washington for the inaugural. Next day he and his wife started north in a drawing room on Atlantic Coast Line's train...