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...episode, Biff Bundle, University Police undercoverman, found himself hot on the trall of a small, nervous foreigner, whom Biff had reason to believe was involved in the hideous murder which had just been discovered in a chemistry lab in Mallinckrodt. At headquarters, Bundle received a phone call from the stranger, who told Biff to meet him at once, muttering cryptically, "ze bronts rhinotseross." When Bundle's immediate notion that the Bronze Rhinoceros was a coffee house proved incorrect, he became convinced that the phrase was an undergraduate nickname for some favored professor. Just at that moment, Biff noticed an immense...
Bundie jumped behind a corner of the building and cautiously watched the fellow walk ponderously past the University Mail Office. Biff stayed carefully hidden until the fat man had disappeared behind Thayer North. Then he began tailing the stranger, dashing from one hiding place to the next, always just staying out of sight...
...worry about it," said Biff. "It could happen to any..." But the stranger had turned and was gone, swallowed up by the hordes pouring out of Sever. Bundie sighed and changed his course. Before he knew it, he had arrived at the University Restaurant and was sitting over a cup of coffee...
...Passion. But on his own, the talented wordsmith has stayed in constant demand. He finished The Young Lions ("by actual account, it was the fourteenth attempt by nine writers"), struck out on Walter Wanger's Cleopatra after nine days, but made good with Not as a Stranger, an almost textbook example of Anhalt's method...
...Would you like a chocolate, mad-ame?" asked the elegant Oriental as the overnight express to St.-Gervais in the French Alps pulled out of Paris' Gare de Lyon. Even though she should have been careful-after all, she and the stranger were alone in the compartment -Mme. Huguette Munck accepted a bonbon. It tasted bitter...