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MAIGRET SITS IT OUT-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). The phlegmatic French detective moves through two stories of murder among pre-war Paris' underworld and petite bourgeoisie. Excellent as quivering slices of lowlife, and as studies in psychology. The detecting is typical Maigret...
...Carr had faced her accusers calmly, had parried questions in a hurt, gentle voice-until she was told that one victim of her alleged flimflamming had informed on her. Then came the giveaway. From her lips exploded strange, unladylike, un-churchly words of the underworld: "Oh, a canary...
...always been easy to follow Papen. The sartorially perfect diplomat, who (in everything but integrity) much resembles a Prussian Anthony Eden, has been seen largely in tantalizing glimpses, shooting precipitately through the trap doors of Europe's high-political underworld. Last week Hungarian Newshawk Tibor Koeves brought these glimpses together to produce the first full-length biography of Papen in English. His book helped explain the connection between the shadowy circles in which Papen moves and the shadowy circles under his eyes. It also explained in part the chemistry of that strange political amalgam: Junker aristocrats with Nazi riffraff...
Anyway, that is the gist of what each Eli says when he gives the Long Cheer, for in Aristo phones' "The Frogs" the frogs yell at the people going to the underworld. "Bre-ke-ke-kex," which translated into American vernacular means "Go to h--, you bums." At the same time, the bre-ke-ke-kex is the three staccato dots and the long dash which stand for "V" for Victory." --From the Yale News...
...Francisco be what many a citizen wanted it to be-a wide-open town. She furnished bail by the gross to bookmakers and prostitutes, kept a taxi waiting at the door to whisk them out of jail and back to work. But she was also a catalyst that brought underworld and police department into an inevitably corrupt amalgam. At her retirement the San Francisco Chronicle waxed nostalgic: "The Old Lady . . . will take to her rocking chair, draw her shawl about her. . . ." But many a citizen thought simply: "Good riddance...