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...called the case "... a bizarre plot. ... It will sound like storybook reading, it is so fantastic." Until the four are put on trial in mid-September, the Government is jealously guarding all details of its superduper spy story. But FBI introduced a cast of characters to jar the most jaded melodrama addict. Charged with collecting information on U.S. war plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling in Budapest...
...West Virginia politico who crosses him. To Matt Neely, in & out of public office since 1908, defeat was bad enough; worse was the fact that it was administered by a handsome, young (47 years old) lawyer making his first political campaign, a Republican upstart with liberal leanings and a storybook name: Chapman Revercomb...
...completed law school in Prague, acquired his first teaching experience in these cities. Among the 10,000 prisoners was a large number of university professors and college students who organized a miniature university within the prison walls. Kohn taught history, government, and philosophy, which, combined with his almost storybook adventures, gave him a perfect background for his later writings and teachings...
...first 18 starts. But after California's Charles S. Howard bought him (for $7,-$500) and put him in Trainer Tom Smith's care, the onetime selling plater finished out of the money only four times in 42 starts. Then, as the crowning achievement of a storybook career, the patched-up cripple, after a year's retirement, came back last March to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, won it in the record- breaking time of 2 min., 1⅓ sec., and boosted his lifetime winnings to $437,730, highest in turf history...
Compared to the Piccoli's mechanical perfection, a puppet Pinocchio which also opened on Broadway last week merely strings along. But as a children's show (which the Piccoli primarily is not) it has its own naive, storybook charm. Unlike the Walt Disney cinema, it does not play ducks & drakes with the Collodi story...