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Rife as it is with florid incident and outrageous coincidence, this yarn is hardly credible on a purely "realistic" basis. But it has about it a great deal of the strange and thrilling logic of a fairy tale, a poem or a dream. It is even an allegory though not a rigid...
Among the other stories, A. M. Kochler has wiped the blood off his fingers after his contribution last month, and come up with a grim little yarn involving a number of mousetraps and an old man wielding a blowtorch. There is also a poem by Mary Devolder which goes through the history of English poetry, promoting a four de force of the verse of important periods. Miss Devolder is undoubtedly clever, but the poem isn't very much fun to road, largely because of lines like...
...Dock C of Buenos Aires' Puerto Nuevo, and the longshoremen went to work on her. For the riches in her hold, her captain carried 1,700 manifests. His ship, 16 days out of New York, was crammed with machines, parts, motors, industrial tools, tinware, reinforcing bars, steel beams, yarn, toys, dental equipment, books, refrigerators full of penicillin...
...58th birthday, "begins at 50. ... The middle years are the mellow ones [without] agonies and tensions." Next day, a Manhattan court recorded a $6,450,000 damage suit against him. After seven years of brooding about the matter, Author Konrad Bercovici claimed that Charlie had "pirated" a Bercovici yarn as the basis of The Great Dictator...
Last year, after the Boettigers had gone, astute Managing Editor Ed Stone found a way to rescue Lynch from boredom and make it pay. Slim had never written much of anything, but he knew everybody in town, and knew how to spin a yarn. Stone set him to writing a Tuesday-through-Friday local column. It turned out to be a wise and whimsical journal about the odd corners of Seattle life, with tales of seamy Skidroad characters, the scavengers on the city dumps and such old Seattle landmarks as the once-grand Globe Hotel. Seattle took the new columnist...