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Caricature, Not Character. For all his crimes, Messkirch is a sympathetic character. Not so the chief character of The Birthday King, by British Novelist Gabriel Fielding. Ruprecht Weidmann is the scion of a wealthy manufacturing family that has a slight admixture of Jewish blood and is trying desperately to get into Hitler's good graces. A cold opportunist, Ruprecht commits his anti-Nazi brother to a concentration camp, drowns a companion, betrays a business associate who is plotting against Hitler, sends off a dozen of his factory workers to serve as medical guinea pigs. Ruprecht is a kind...
Jules came to office in troublous times. His decapitation of the nightclub slayer Eugene Weidmann was accompanied by such a burst of newsmen's flashbulbs and sob sisters' ink that public executions were barred thenceforth. Once he was arrested on suspicion of being a German paratrooper when his portable guillotine got lost. Thanks to the occupying Germans' zeal for capital punishment, however, he managed to pile up a post-Sanson record of 316 beheadings during his career...
...domain of Operations' Overseas Publications Bureau, headed by ex-Associated Pressman Ed Stanley. They are the work of such once highly paid talents as Artist-Humorist Ludwig Bemelmans, Scenarist Robert Riskin (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, etc.), Novelist Jerome (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) Weidmann, Author Humphrey Cobb (Paths of Glory), Adman Ted Patrick and others...
Died. Eugene Weidmann, 31, amatory German murderer-for-profit who in his haunts near Paris killed six people, including Brooklyn Dancer Jean de Koven; under the guillotine; at dawn, in sight of 10,000 sensation seekers, outside Versailles prison...
...young German, Arthur Frommer, who had an uncle named Schott. Aroused at last, secret police agents traced Uncle Schott to Nice. He had no recollection of giving any visiting cards to his nephew, but did remember giving his card to a plausible young German named Eugene George Weidmann. Eugene George Weidmann was discovered living at St. Cloud under the name of Siegfried Sauerbrey. Inspectors Poignant and Bourguin of the Paris police dropped in on him. Before they were halfway through the doorway Weidmann whipped out a pistol, wounded them both. Plunging ahead, they beat him into submission...
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