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...last month, B. S. Meshchevitinov, the Soviet Union's young cultural attache in Norway, jammed his belongings into grips and caught the overnight express to Stockholm. He got away just in time. The next day, Inspector Asbjoern Brhyn of the Norwegian security police announced that Meshchevitinov had been Russian contact for the biggest spy ring ever unearthed in Norway. For the past two years, Meshchevitinov had been driven in a limousine to isolated and regular rendezvous near the capital. There he had been met by a tall, pale man who supplied the Russian with a complete file of Norway...
...Master was in his study, brooding. On the wall, the inter-room video screens glowed. The Master looked at one of the screens and smiled: Brown was hard at work in K-32. The bed was meticulously made--always a major item on the Inspector's list. Shoes were lined neatly under the bed. Ash trays gleamed from their places on the well-dusted shelves. Yes, the Master decided, Brown was a credit to the House. Of course, things had not been that way when he was an undergraduate, but then, hard times had come. The Master pulled a little...
...flicked off the set and looked at the other screens. A-23--that lout Reeves was sleeping again. Never cleaned his room until the last minute, and last week the Inspector had found that pile of dirt under the rug. The Master had been reprimanded...
...Christmas cards on the floor and directed his wife to open the envelopes and remove their contents. Even after Willie was ar rested, the Jackson Park postal station could do no more than ask the 282 mail-less taxpayers to come down and sort through the pile. Postal Inspector F. W. Baleiko, however, was surprised at the public outcry caused by Willie's lapse from grace. "Sometimes," he said wearily, "these substitute carriers just dump their mail in an alley and if it snows we don't find it until March...
...phenomenon of our times." Paris' Arts votes "thanks to Grandma Moses for the happiness she shows us." Vienna-born Otto ' Kallir flatly insists that Grandma is "one of the very great painters in America today." In his opinion she outranks even Henri Rousseau, the Paris customs inspector who was the first modern "primitive" painter to be revered by connoisseurs...