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...GRINNING PIG - Nap Lombard - < Simon & Schuster ($2). Two successful slayings and sundry near misses by a pig-masked killer keep a whole crew of English detectives - amateur and professional - on the jump. An amusing, almost unguessable, exciting yarn, as bright as paint and thoroughly unprincipled...
When the crack New York-Buffalo Lackawanna Limited cracked up one night a fortnight ago in upper New York State, available reporters were as scarce as hen's teeth. How the United Press got the story of the wreck, in which 28 died in live steam, made a yarn for pressroom spinning. Seldom had improvised telephone coverage, which newspapers and news associations constantly use, turned out so successfully...
...acquaintances of that period still yarn about his Paris operations, remember more about his escapades than about his combat achievements. After the Armistice, Allen served with the Army of Occupation. One night, at a party in Occupied Germany, Allen arrived late and paired off, without introductions, with a charming British officer. They slapped each other's backs, swapped drinks and stories until the shank of morning. Next day someone asked Allen whether he knew who the Briton...
...relaxed long since from its Spartan attitude that the U.S. must suffer for suffering's sake. Last week WPB relaxed again, granted permission to make ten household articles from carpet sweepers to pot cleaners, instructed textile spinners to set aside a certain percentage of yarn for civilians (winter underwear). But these were unsatisfactory, catch-as-catch-can patching attempts...
...Incident (20th Century-Fox) is Walter Van Tilburg Clark's excellent sagebrush yarn filmed with tantalizing promise, a good deal of performance and some of lanky Henry Fonda's best acting...