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...openly are bets being taken and numbers slips "written," that a complete stranger can walk up to almost any cab driver and be directed to an "agent." If it is too early for the agent to make his rounds and pick up the cabbie's numbers, the driver will deliver it to him. He will in turn make the pay-off, if it isn't so large that it is worth his while to skip town and keep it for himself...
...wife, never showed much fondness for his jungle principality. At the parties which took up most of the little time he spent there, he added swing bands and imported whisky for the traditional tomtom beaters and veiled female attendants. His subjects, Chinese, Malays and Dyaks, regarded him as a stranger, whispered that he had none of the kekuatan adjaib (magical powers) of his ancestors...
...tailed Navy Privateer was brief and businesslike. She was over the German North Sea port of Bremerhaven heading northeast toward the Baltic into bad weather, she radioed the U.S. Air Force Base in Wiesbaden. At Wiesbaden the four-engined patrol bomber had refueled some three hours before, a Navy stranger out of Africa, carrying a crew of four officers, two mechanics, three radar technicians and a communicator. She was supposed to be flying some kind of navigation training flight "nonstop to Copenhagen and return...
Also scheduled to speak are Rolf Stranger, Chairman of the Board, Municipal Collections of Osle, and Johan Langaard, Director of the Collections, who travelled from Norway for the occasion...
This was evidently the right tack Craven, who boasts "a wee bit of Irish blood," forked over three dollars, and Ensign followed up with two. The stranger promised to return the money on the 21st, when he would rejoin the Flamingo in Brooklyn...