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Back in the U.S., he cut loose with a Jan Valtin horror story of Mexican beisbol. Mickey recalled the first time he saw Mexico City's Nuevo Laredo Park. At first he wondered why it looked so familiar; then he realized he had seen it before in nightmares, bumpy infield, wobbly stands and all. "If some of those Mexican henchmen didn't think you were hustling to their satisfaction," said Mickey, "they'd sidle up to you and stick a gun in your ribs. . . . It just scared the hell out of me." To hear Mickey tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Return of the Prodigal | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Major Alexander P. (Air Power) de Seversky; Jan (Out of the Night) Valtin; John Roy (Under Cover) Carlson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tex & Jinx | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Born. To Pfc. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 39, ham-handed expose writer (Out of the Night), onetime Gestapo and Ogpu agent; and his second wife, Abigail Harris Krebs, 21: their second child, second son; in Danbury, Conn. Name: Eric Alan. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Valtin, 1941's best-selling tattletale (Out of the Night), German-born ex-agent for both the Ogpu and Gestapo, undesirable-alien parolee, passed his draft physical and was ordered to arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entertainers | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...again was in-again-out-again Jan Valtin, 1941's best-selling tell-all (Out of the Night). The German-born ex-agent for both the Gestapo and Ogpu (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941, et seq.), onetime California jailbird who was pardoned just before Pearl Harbor, then jugged on Ellis Island six months ago as an undesirable alien, was freed on parole, faded back into the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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