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Last week they drove into Concord, N.H., registered at a hotel, and sallied forth to case the town. Giles dropped into a local movie to stare critically at a film entitled The Suspect. Cook wandered out to a tailor shop. But police and FBI men spotted their stolen automobile parked at the curb. They stopped Cook with leveled Tommy guns, relieved him of a bag containing a wad of stolen currency and four stolen pistols. He was apparently too annoyed to say a word. But Giles seemed well rehearsed. When two policemen cornered him in the movie, he grated...
...Roman Catholic faith." It was "stupid . . . Ku Klux Klanism, and worse. . . . No conscious fascist could have phrased it better." At week's end Mowrer had not chosen to reply in print. Said he: "Of course I could go down and talk it out with Thackrey, but my tailor hasn't got my Ku Klux uniform ready...
...position to call the matter to the attention of the police, because he has only recently been acquitted of the mercy-killing of his wife. Before he has worked his way out of his difficulties, he has discovered that a clairvoyant, an old bookseller, a Cabinet minister, a tailor and, he fears, the girl he loves (Marjorie Reynolds) are involved in an effort to destroy his nation...
Myth & Minstrelsy. From a tailor's wife of Niederzwehren, from peasants and villagers, from family friends and old nursemaids, from medieval manuscripts and ancient collections, the Grimm brothers gleaned the vast leavings of literature that had been blown into medieval Germany over the centuries by the winds of Hindu mythology, Irish balladry, Gothic minstrelsy. But today Cinderella, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Tom Thumb, et al. have become so much a part of western folklore that the Brothers Grimm's labors in reviving them have been largely forgotten, watered-down, or vilified...
...course of their long voyage out, you get some sense of knowing the whole 3,000-odd personnel, from the cobbler and barber and tailor to the princely-looking royally treated pilots...