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While Fisticuffer Max Schmeling, "heavyweight champion of the world," was talking with a group of friends in the Commodore Hotel Lobby in Manhattan, a slight, 19-year-old boy approached him. thrust out a paper and said: "Here's a summons for you." Then he dropped the paper at the...
Advice is given by the Virgin Mary, Dante and the Unknown Soldier. Finally the assemblage decides that a superman must do battle with the devil, now personified as Bolshevism. God the Father summons the Archangel Gabriel, commands him to descend to Earth and find The Man.
Correspondent Lyons bided his time, watched for his opportunity, saw it in last fortnight's report of Stalin's "assassination." Again he wrote a letter, this time was rewarded by a telephoned summons to the office of the Communist Central Committee. With him he took as interpreter Charles...
If it had not been for Mother Suré and her genius for taking infinite pains to make ends meet somehow, their poverty would have been more unbearable than it was. When the eldest son saved his pennies and emigrated to the U. S., the Zlotniks regarded him as an...
Most murder-story writers content themselves with two or three violent deaths in one book. Not so Author Thayer: his hero kills 39 people. But Thirteen Men is not a detective story, for the murders are all committed and solved in the first chapter. The rest of the book takes...