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Freedom Is Crime. The hero, Hans Barlach, is a retired Swiss police commissioner, convalescing from an operation for cancer. He comes to suspect that a notorious doctor who performed experimental operations without anesthetic in Nazi concentration camps may be the same surgeon who is running a swank sanitarium near Zurich. Barlach commits himself to the sanitarium in the hope of exposing the evil M.D., but finds himself trapped and helpless in Dr. Emmenberger's grisly suite of torture chambers...
...fall day in 1900, in a swank Manhattan apartment, a trusted butler clamped a chloroformed towel across the face of his master. So died William Marsh Rice, 84, leaving some $10 million-most of it to his lawyer. To his old friends in Texas, where Yankee Merchant Rice had made his pile, the will seemed strange. They thought that Rice, a widower with no children, had planned to leave nearly all his money to the founding of a college in Houston...
...whom have been sent to El Dakhla. a sand-rimmed Alcatraz in the desert wastes of the upper Nile. There they are joined by growing numbers of civilians, imprisoned for anti-Nasser sympathies. Government spies are everywhere. One Mme. Badrawi spent half an hour at Cairo's swank Automobile Club denouncing Nasser and provoking other society matrons to be equally frank. As she was about to leave, Madame tripped-and from under her mink stole dropped a midget tape recorder...
Joining with the Citizens' Council (no kin to the South's demagogic White Citizens' Councils), but picking up their own tabs, 146 Negro clergymen, business leaders and their wives spread through the city. Their destinations ranged from Woolworth's lunch counters to the swank Zodiac Room at Neiman-Marcus' specialty store. Nowhere were they refused service...
Soon the bombed and battered British were startled to hear Plummie's fluting, very English voice on Radio Berlin. Plum was living in Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon, and at the invitation of the Nazis, had recorded a series of five radio talks with the bantering title: How to Be an Internee in Your Spare Time Without Previous Training. Though heard in Britain, the series was beamed to the U.S., which was wavering on the edge of war. Apparently, Hitler's propagandists believed Plum's breezy account of his misadventures as British Civilian Prisoner 796 would...