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Actually, The World's Last Corner is a picaresque novel with the juice squeezed out. The traditional picaresque offers a rogue-hero merrily breaking social conventions to rise from squalor to respectability; Plieviers hero, Wenzel, is more victim than rogue - a seafaring, 20th Century Everyman who breaks the laws of society only because he wants...
...When Wenzel jumps ship at the South American port of Caleta Colosal, he feels he has reached the world's dead end. It suits him well enough; through hard work and corner-cutting, he is soon the owner of a small fishery. But his business and his hopes go smash when he runs head-on into the big Nitra mining company, which bosses the country. Wenzel has to leave Caleta Colosal because he has persuaded the Nitra workers to strike for 10 pesos more a day. But, like Hemingway's hero in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
Five honor diplomas were awarded to Lieutenants Irving R. Cohen, Edmund A. Mounis, John T. Brogdon, James Grear, and Winton W. Wenzel...
Chicago-born Alfred Wallenstein is the fifth-great-grandnephew of famed General Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, who made history by his fighting in the Thirty Years' War, which ruined Europe a good bit more than World War II to date. When he was eight, Alfred asked for a bicycle, could find none with a coaster brake, so picked a shiny cello in Lyon & Healy's window. He became a prodigy, at 15 toured with Dancer Anna Pavlova, later played with the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, was first cellist of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under...
...first to die was Kelly's pal, William Wenzel. Then the cook, with $163 in his pockets, stepped casually over the bulwarks, remarking: "I'm just going across the street to get some pineapples." Another shipmate, dying, begged: "Just leave my mouth open when I'm gone so that I can get plenty of water...