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After the Troop took part in the First Army Maneuvers near Ogdensburg, N. Y. last August, an Army inspector reported: "The officers are well qualified ... to properly command appropriate units in combat. . . . Practically all non-commissioned officers could take their places as officers . . . without additional training...
Died. Police Inspector Matthew J. Mc-Grath, 64, massive, Tipperary-born New York City cop who competed for the U. S. in four Olympics (1908-12-20-24), set an American record in 1911 for the 56-pound weight (40 ft., 6⅜ in.) that still stands; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
DEATH AT THE HELM- John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). A yacht piles up on shore with a man and woman freshly dead of poison in the cockpit: she, the wife of a frozen-faced K.C.; he the son of a Purity Society officer. Inspector Jimmy Waghorn figures it all wrong until Dr. Priestley finally appears...
MAIGRET TO THE RESCUE - Georges Simenon - Harcourt, Brace ($2). Another splendid brace of Inspector Maigret stories translated from the French. Frequent dollops of Pernod improve everyone's perceptions...
...Matabeleland. By the time of the Boer War he was a colonel in command of Mafeking, where he held off the Boers with a heroic 217-day defense. In 1907, aged 50, big-game hunter, author of Aids to Scouting, an Empire hero, he was back in England as Inspector-General of Cavalry...