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...Pinkerton...
This letter was circulated in Britain last week. Reginald Pinkerton, its author, is a thin-lipped, jug-eared bachelor of 49 who grasps his rolled umbrella with wary grip, never knowing when he may be attacked by a predatory female. In his young days, as a clerk in a grocery store, Reginald Pinkerton learned to fear housewives. He willingly fought through all of World War I, a man's affair. Then he took a job as a bank clerk in Argentina, where woman's place is in the home. Returning to England in 1926, he "observed the havoc...
This year Mr. Pinkerton has been flooding Britain with leaflets outlining his crusade. The League's slogan: "Men's Jobs for Men. Babies for Women...
Author Hammett, 47, onetime Pinkerton detective, white-haired, and very thin, has not written a book since his memorable The Thin Man (1934). Since then, the once undisputed champion of U.S. crime-story writers has been scripting his thrillers for Hollywood. For a long, long time he has had his sixth book-now titled There Was a Young Man-under way. He swears it is almost finished. Queried about his whereabouts (now Manhattan), one of the author's waggish friends quipped: "He's sitting at the Beverly-Wilshire contemplating his novel...
...pulled off by the child's mother. He follows his steady nose through the most sidesplitting chase sequences since the days of the Keystone cops. He is surrounded but not obscured by such accomplices as Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard and Jessie Ralph, bearing such names as J. Pinkerton Snoopington, Joe Guelpe and Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch...