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...days later, Police Chief C. Norbert Wade reported with a straight face to the Township Committee. Patrolman Pierman, said the chief, had strayed from duty. The woman he had in his car while parked in a quiet spot was one who "neither required information, nor was aged, infirm, blind, suddenly taken ill, injured, or otherwise temporarily unable to care for herself." Moreover, he had made a broadcast "not in the line of duty or relating to public, police or safety matters." Patrolman Pierman opened himself altogether to five official charges when he forgot to turn off the switch...
When rich, wanderlusty His Highness the Maharaja of Tripura, Sir Bir Bikram Kishore Deb decided to see the world, he instructed Thos. Cook & Son's sniffy "Princes' Department" to assign him its No. 1 courier, big, beefy, 60-year-old Frederick Norbert Wagner. Last June the Maharaja, his entourage of eight, and 58 pieces of luggage arrived in Marseille, France. There, on his toes as usual, Courier Wagner firmly took command...
...Frederick Norbert Wagner this was no novel assignment. Maharajas are his dish. Man and boy he had circled the globe 17 times with them, never flubbed a ticklish problem (even when His Highness the Nawab of Rampur toted his own kitchen and cooks, or the late Gaekwar of Baroda handed him keys for 468 pieces of luggage, weighing 17 tons...
...Swiss chemist, Frederick Norbert Wagner contracted travelers' itch "while my shirtwaist and trousers were still one piece." At 17 he shipped to the U. S. After clerking for a shipping line, he landed a job in Cook's London office. The World War found him skittering about as a British Intelligencer, an experience which brought him many a fruitful contact ("I know all the little back doors...
...Years Under the Earth* published last week in the U. S. Norbert Casteret declares with a refreshing lack of modesty: "Underground exploration requires unexpected talents-from prehistory, mineralogy, natural history, physics and chemistry to rope acrobatics, crawling, canoeing, swimming and even skating. . . . No one can venture underground without agility and physical stamina, and these qualifications I possessed as a champion runner, jumper and swimmer...