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...stores, just missed the first nylon sale. They bought clothes for the family, tidbits for the table. Men & women blew themselves to a restaurant dinner, went to a hockey game, or to a movie. Some men watched a few "ends" of a curling bonspiel, took friends to the washroom for a snort or two (with a sharp lookout for the law), got tight...
...Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply stank.") But at least they got home. In West Coast ports, thousands of returned troops were stalled indefinitely. Housing facilities were so bad many of them had to be quartered in barracks ships in Puget Sound. There would be many disappointments on Christmas...
...adventure story, it is often hackneyed. When it tells of flight, pursuit, escape, triumph, it carries conviction in every incident. Its killings are coldblooded, its sorrows without tears. Dziepatowski, Karski's violinist friend, was caught and executed after he had killed a German agent in a Warsaw washroom. Borecki was caught, could not get the poison from his signet ring in time. He too was killed...
...could either afford to sit tight, or had been ordered to, or both. And they did. They staged no preconvention banquets or band concerts. Dewey's No. 1 feminine supporter, tall, grey Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, occupied inconspicuous basement quarters next to the Blackstone Hotel men's washroom. And the Dewey Triumvirate-Jaeckle, Sprague and Brownell-held court in businesslike fashion in a plain and bannerless 25th-floor suite, until Dewey's nomination was cinched...
When a young Nazi disappears from a Prague restaurant washroom, 26 Czech hostages are jailed. Though the coroner's verdict is suicide, none of the hostages is released. Reason: one of them (Oscar Homolka), a Czech collaborationist, has investments which Nazi officials want. The magnate's daughter (Miss Rainer) and her quisling fiancé set out to bribe his way to freedom. Their efforts involve them, unwittingly, in Prague's underground. One member of the underground is prepared to "confess" that he "murdered" the Nazi in order to bring about the release of the hostages. Reason...