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...frock, slipped my hand beneath it and ..." And Mika Waltari, whose bestsellers (The Egyptian, The Adventurer, The Wanderer) would be considerably shorter if his heroines knew about zippers, is off meandering again, this time in his native Finland. This volume consists of five not-very-short stories. The title yarn tells what happens to the unbuttoned country girl: she grows up to be a movie star with a boudoir-view of life ("There are no impotent men, only unskilled women, don't you think?"). Another story, The Tie from Paris, is about a middle-aged banker whose pretty young...
...some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand her a map). Placed under house arrest. Rebel Rose managed to continue her espionage by such devices as the smuggling out of messages concealed in pink balls of yarn. Properly jailed in January 1862, she was pardoned six months later and left prison wrapped in a Confederate flag. She finally died for her cause: trying to get to Confederate headquarters with desperately needed gold, she was flung from a rowboat in a heavy sea off Wilmington...
...best ones make it plain that Author Krige is more than promising: 1) The Dream, which lyrically describes a happy young boy's bewilderment when death robs him of his favorite aunt and cousins, then takes his baby brother as well; 2) The Coffin, a fine yarn about a virile old South African farmer and great-grandfather who always had his own expensive coffin ready and waiting in the storeroom. One after another, he gave away several of them to less hardy contemporaries, was caught short without one when his own death came...
Chicago's 57-year-old Meyer Kestn-baum, who has probably heard the yarn more often than anyone else, still laughs every time he hears it; it is part of his job. As president of Hart Schaffner & Marx, he heads the biggest men's ready-to-wear company in the nation (1953 sales: $69 million). In the U.S. suit-and-coat industry, giant H.S. & M. does more business than the next four companies combined. To run the big company, Meyer Kestnbaum needs only one brief-.case; but he keeps four others packed full of work on a long...
...such a contest, the outcome is pretty well rigged. What weakens Author Van der Lugt's lively yarn is his unashamed sentimentality, his failure to make the doctor seem like a truly troubled man or even a convinced atheist. What is good about The Crazy Doctor is its author's earthy sense of humor, and the fresh background of Holland life and scenery that sometimes has the authenticity of a Rembrandt. Van der Lugt, a prolific writer still under 40 (more than 70 plays, six novels, many juveniles), writes like a man in a hurry. In his first...