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...wooden pillow General Araki pondered these things and the flame of his fighting loyalty burned high. "I am too weak now," he said. "Another must take my place." This other turned out to be a tiger man more militant if possible than invalid Araki-hale & hearty General Senjuro Hayashi, Inspector General of Military Education...
...Chevalier d'Industrie Stavisky won a 2,000,000-franc baccarat duel at Cannes with Nicholas Zographos-and afterward marked cards were found in the baccarat shoe. Recklessly the Opposition Press in Paris hurled charges at Premier Chautemps that the Founder-Swindler had had a card as an inspector in the French Secret Service, that this alone had stopped French detectives from exposing him, that he had not fled last week but was still in Paris "under high protection." With her children Mme Stavisky was still in Paris, living in a new apartment under her maiden name which...
...photographed so well that Van Dyke decided to make him the hero. Most of the whites in the cast are members of Van Dyke's technical crew. The fur-trader is Peter Freuchen, who wrote the book on which Eskimo is based. Van Dyke himself is a police inspector. When he came back to Hollywood last spring with 600,000 feet of film, Director Van Dyke brought along a dozen Eskimos for interior sequences. They endured Hollywood for six months, hurried North when their supply of canned reindeer meat gave...
...SCARLET MESSENGER-Henry Holt-Crime Club ($2). Murder by knife, extortion by letter, intimidation by tonga bean bring Inspector Silver and Friend Collinson in & out of another mystery...
...Irish father), was 104 years old, he was finally prevailed upon to recite the story of his life-or rather, one stormy year of it, when as a boy of 12 he journeyed from the tip of Lower California up to San Francisco in the caravan of the Spanish Inspector-General. That was in 1810. He took the journey for his health, having just knifed a local scoundrel with an uncomfortably large number of brothers. It was a long, arduous, dangerous trip, but young Juan had the time of his life. He became immediately devoted to the Inspector-Gen-eral...