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Died. Baroness Orczy (Mrs. Montague Barstow), 82, champagne-and-swordplay novelist whose foppish, daredevil hero, "The Scarlet Pimpernel," first appeared in 1905, reappeared in twelve subsequent novels and one book of short stories, was the heaviest single contributor to her fame (and a Riviera villa); in London...
What Paper Do You Read? The quality of this extravagant coverage was something else. The painful Pearl Harbor story was confused at best. It was com plicated by contradiction, by varying recol lections and by bitter bouts of political swordplay. Most of the reporters strove to tell it coherently. But a sizable portion of the U.S. press did little to untangle the story for the man who knew only what he read in the papers...
Sophomore Joe Koch will take Johnson's place on the strong foil team which overcame Army in the Pentagonals, 5 to 4. Bill Croach, Lynn Brua, and Paul Littlefield will compose the epee team, and their swordplay may well mean the difference between defeat and victory for the Crimson today...
Rassendyll's job is to rescue Rudolf and hand over the throne, so that he can unbosom himself to Flavia. Before he gains his objective Colman proves himself an expert at fighting with tables, has a mighty brisk bout of swordplay with Douglas Fairbanks. Even the tried-&-true finale will seem to a reasonably sentimental audience as good-enough as old-time religion. Because there is a tiny hamlet in Canada (Zenda, Ont.) named in honor of The Prisoner of Zenda, far-fetching Selznick Publicity Man Russell Birdwell fetched Zenda's entire population (12) down to the Manhattan...
Carried away by the publicity his swordplay was bringing him, Dr. Sarga neglected his affairs, failed to pay installments on his furniture. Nothing mattered except finishing off his hundred duels. A third duel was fought two months ago and still Dr. Sarga went unscathed...