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...mouthfulls for any 'stunt' which might publicise his beautiful guinea pig," and observer said. His chance came when CRIMSON editors appeared between say, Ritz diners bearing a moulting canary bird, incarnate soul of the sacred lbis. Many eye witnesses claim that at this point, Kamber seized the helpless bird, wrung its neck, put it on a large china plate and made Marjorie eat it as Boston photographers clicked their flash bulbs madly...
...HAPPY HOOLIGAN -Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Hildegarde Withers, the school-teacher whose detective powers have for many years shamed Inspector Oscar Piper of the New York police, visits Hollywood, where broken necks are becoming too common on a movie lot. Miss Withers' own neck is almost wrung and Inspector Piper flies to the rescue...
...gives away his position to the natives by firing at a ghost. The story is simply that of the destruction of the Emperor's nerve and arrogance and of his inability to escape from the sins of his past into life of happiness from the riches he has wrung from the natives...
Back in London after barnstorming for a month across Australasia, Noel Coward told countrymen that his one-man war agency A.E.A. (An Englishman Abroad) had raised ?10,000 for the Red Cross. Duty done, Patriot Coward, who reckoned he had wrung 1,400 hands a day during his concert tour, now hoped "my brains are of more service to my country than my body...
...that darkness the battered, drained and dry-wrung people of London still reveal their incredible fibre. They have endured Puritanism, mercantilism, industrialism, sinking physically, among the nations of Europe, from the first grade to the third. But Europe's once strongest stock survived the plagues and the Great Fire, and it now turns the worst rage that modern war can wreak into just another trial to be confronted. In confronting it, Londoners have rediscovered their chief racial faculty, once wild, now disciplined: a casual, bottomless courage...