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MURDER FOR BREAKFAST-Peter Hunt -Vanguard ($2). Miller happens to be Chief of Police in a small Connecticut town but speedily gets out of his depth when murder is dinned into his ears. In the baffling hospital-residence of a taciturn, suspicious doctor his common sense is his only piece of equipment. But he uses it effectively even when he is on the point of being the third victim...
Inconspicuous, taciturn about his marital affairs, Blue Boy has left a model for many a cinemactor from whom he was protected in life (except for Will Rogers) by a four-foot fence of substantial construction. He never wangled a city deal or produced a strip...
Hard, hot-eyed, taciturn Eugene Chen looks like Nikolai Lenin disguised as Rudyard Kipling. He was born in British Trinidad, got his start at the London bar and according to his many Chinese enemies "cannot speak or write Chinese...
When Seton Porter sensed the groundswell of Repeal, things began to hum. One wintry day in 1932 he called up Henry Mason Day, the big, grizzled, taciturn partner of Redmond & Co. who loyally went to jail with his good friend Harry Ford Sinclair for jury-shadowing. Mr. Day picked up one of the seven telephones on his desk and listened to Mr. Porter's suggestion that National Distillers, aside from the dynamite of Repeal, was a pretty good thing at around $16 per share. Mr. Day cocked an eye at the ebony elephant on his desk. Mr. Porter needed...
...Sound. By morning it was anchored in Fort Pond Bay near Montauk Point. Because the weather was drizzly, the President lazed about all day, reading, resting. The third day, wearing only a pair of duck trousers, he went off fishing on the sloop Orca under the guidance of bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain Gray: "Fish don't bite any faster for a President than they do for a plumber." That night...