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...those who know their Runyon need not be told that the criminals are made to feel ludicrously uneasy by the State trooper, that the orphan proves invaluable in thwarting the bankers and bringing the course of true love to a satisfactory conclusion. As has already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer...
...communication lines in the Mediterranean. Pow!-Ethiopia's Emperor tried to hand over the better half of his realm to Standard Oil (see p. 23). And bang! bang! bang!-Italian guns fired live shells over Italian troops advancing in war games along the Austrian frontier, killing one trooper and wounding two others as they charged up a hill with the King and Mussolini looking...
...trooper described an accident-five cars in one mess, seven killed on the spot, two dead on the way to the hospital, two more dead in the long run. . . . Three bodies out of one car were so soaked with oil from the crankcase that they looked like wet browrn cigars and not human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl...
...house, found Ward's ax, ran on smashing flower pots, window panes, returned to the door and began chopping at it. Ward telephoned the Peekskill police who told him his house was out of their district, called the Cortlandt police who told him to try the state troopers at Hawthorne, 15 miles away, called the state troopers who sent a trooper. Ward got out his shotgun, loaded it, returned to the window. The naked man was still chopping at the door. Ward fired once over his head, the second time into the madman's body...
...that the furore would cause him to pardon somebody. Obliging Herr Hitler promptly fulfilled this prophecy, used his powers for the first time to prevent a beheading, saved and sent to 15 years imprisonment no woman but a man, one Bernard Pischon, sentenced to death for shooting a Storm Trooper...