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...Gretchen Fritz, 17. Some, after Gretchen and her sister Wendy, 13, disappeared, seriously suspected that he had carried out his threat. Several of his intimates thought they knew that a year earlier he had dispatched another girl, Alleen Rowe, 15, as wantonly as he had once smashed a pet cat against a wall. Even so, if one of Smitty's pals, fearing that his own girl friend was next in line for liquidation, had not finally told the police all about his homicidal hero, Tucson might never have caught up with its budding Bluebeard...
...Anton tied their skis together with rubber binders that boosted Dr. Josef Klaus for Chancellor. In Vienna, shoppers were assaulted by Technicolored posters plumping for "Pittermann, Always a Democrat, Always for Austria!", and others found their mailboxes stuffed with pamphlets showing Dr. Bruno Pittermann fondling his black cat Petzi. Even the revelers at the huge Vienna Staatsoper Fasching ball could not escape a host of beaming candidates. Austria was in the midst of a bitterly contested election campaign...
...tales have a fault, it is probably that some are actually character sketches rather than genuine short stories: an aging bachelor lies his way out of the hospital so he can go home to his cat; an elderly executive dies after fulfilling his dream of visiting Dublin. But minor faults are more than compensated for by one superb story, A Love Match, which tells of an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister. Author Warner not only makes the reader feel wholly sympathetic toward the characters, but in the soft-spoken telling, their relationship seems to become almost commonplace instead...
...another cat-and-mouse week...
...tale of an equine in an apron, is actually about a hill-country boy (Jay North, TV's Dennis the Menace) who loves a puma named Sunshine. When Jay's folks move into the city, Jay stows away Sunshine in the back of the family truck. The cat ends up in a cramped zoo, where Jay becomes errand boy just long enough to snitch Keeper Andy Devine's keys and set loose lions, tigers, bears, apes, zebras, snakes, elephants, an ostrich and Sunshine upon a terrified populace...