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...served in the War, Navy and National Defense Ministries, and for leading the suppression of the bandit Cedillo two years ago was given the highest possible Army rank, divisional general. Stout, with piano legs and sofa shoulders, of medium height, he was shy until his certainty that he would win the campaign made him brash. His extracurricular passion is polo. His string of ponies has traveled all the way to Long Island...
...British War Relief Society distributed 1,200 stout paper bags labeled B. W. R. S.. containing wool, knitting needles, directions for making sweaters, socks, mittens...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL - Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). April, May and June Hawthorne, three weird sisters, take the woes of their brother's will to lazy, orchid-loving Nero Wolfe...
...Japanese advanced on many fronts. Short, stout, bald, jolly Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, whom the Japanese like to call a "French-type diplomat," and short, popeyed, acid Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma, whose diplomacy smacks more of the German, had much to say after each advance...
After this reprieve at dawn, the submarine dived, vanished. The Washington, without waiting to ask questions, steamed ahead, lifeboats still hanging on her stout sides. Not until the ship was well away from the scene did Captain Manning slow down to empty the boats. After all were brought back aboard, the Washington sighted another submarine. Taking no chances on his blinker this time, anxious Captain Manning worked an old sea trick by turning tail on the sub at such an angle that the Washington sailed toward the sun and its rays blinded the possible pursuer, which soon disappeared...