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...last the coughing civil servants were released from the plane to find themselves facing a battery of stern and intractable officials at the airport. The crimes they had apparently committed were many. Some had failed to fill in their entry forms correctly. A police inspector was found to be carrying an undeclared pistol. A representative of the Reserve Bank was accused of smuggling in undeclared dollars. The Health Department man was found to be short one vaccination and was forced to take his shot then and there. Feeling duly humbled, the men who write New Zealand's entry rules...
Premier Faure was shocked. Special detectives from Paris arrested the man suspected of organizing the White Terror. He proved to be Chief Inspector Jean Delrieu, formerly head of the Casablanca police department charged with combatting Arab terrorism. Faure called a Cabinet meeting, then put in a call to the Saar. He wanted to speak to Gilbert Grandval...
...Grande Railroad (his predecessor was Alfred Perlman, who moved on 18 months ago to become president of Robert R. Young's New York Central). Son of a railroadman and educated at the University of Illinois, Aydelott highballed up through the ranks from laborer to gang foreman and track inspector, became trainmaster in 1943 and general manager last year...
...anyone knows, Mrs. Robbins, the wife of a New York City health inspector and the mother of four children, is the first woman cantor in Jewish his tory. An intensive search into Jewish law turned up nothing that could bar her appointment, but the whole weight of Jewish custom was against it. Although women are movingly praised in Jewish scripture, they have always occupied an inferior position in the Jewish religious structure as ";a nation unto themselves." Born in Cavalla, Greece, of Russian parents, Mrs. Robbins moved with her family to Danzig in 1928 when she was only five, soon...
...Simenon is best known as the creator of pipe-smoking Inspector Maigret, the kindly, plodding and vaguely troubled French detective. But the keenest Simenon fans have long since stopped thinking of him as a mere mystery writer or even as a literary psychologist. To them he is a real novelist with a special view of life that is instantly conjured up in their minds by the simple mention of his name...