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...Stout, glad-handed Park Commissioner John B. Vesey of Memphis, wanted his city to have 1) the largest zoo in the U.S., 2) an eye-catching art collection. With the zoo the Commissioner was doing splendidly. But last week his art boom had the mange. He had spent some $25,000 in good taxpayers' cash for "old masters." There were some 38 paintings, all from the collection of Warner S. McCall, retired St. Louis public-utilities developer, a man who was wont to tread on rare Tabriz rugs and drink from cut glass goblets said to have been fingered...
Sirs: Talk about Rex Stout's reporting. In his letter published in your issue...
...Stout wrote: "Germans like Paul Wohl and Prince Lowenstein start a campaign (in the New York Herald Tribune) to put over Erwin Bumke as a 'good' German with whom we could deal in confidence." [Author Stout also said: "In the anatomy of the German rattlesnake, the rantings of Hitler are merely the rattle; it is men like Bumke . . . who share their views and their disease, that carry the deadly poison of Pan-Germanism...
Equipment was more than a problem: there wasn't any. Holland Smith started practicing with two ancient ship's launches whose engines frequently did not work. He experimented with Boat Builder Andrew Jackson Higgins on a fast, high, stout-bottomed boat that could bounce over shallow reefs and hit the sand hard enough to get men into shallow water...
Their first widening of position had gone along in fine style. But by the end of the first ten days they had been stopped by stout German defenses. Last week the Germans reported pinching off a few outfits that struck too deeply. In front of the Allies was a stout stone wall of enemy fire power...