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Into Helsinki's pock-marked airport swooped a big plane with a red star. The first eleven members of the Allied Armistice Control Commission-Russians all-shook hands briefly with Foreign Minister Enckell, started on a conducted search for living quarters. Their chief, Pavel Orlov, Russia's Minister to Finland after the Russian invasion of 1939, decided that the former Estonian Legation was an anachronism, gave orders to move in. Then everybody headed for a state dinner, tendered by new Premier Urho Jonas Castren. Eighty more Commission members-all Russians-were due the next day. Impassively the Finns...
...back seat was his expectant daughter, Mrs. Ernst Ophuls, comforted by Mrs. Lapham. He got to the hospital's emergency exit in jig-time, only to find it locked, had to sprint up a flight of stairs to get the gate opened, then went off in search of hospital attendants. The stork won the race: when His Honor returned to the car, he found he was a grandfather for the tenth time...
There follows a complex, legerdemainiac series of situations depicting the search for Gorgon's FATHER. The combined efforts of Barnaby, O'Malley and Atlas the Mental Giant are brought to bear. Gorgon père is finally discovered to be the nameless, galumphing coach hound of the local fire department. But that slobbering, fragrant beast has no vocabulary other than "Arf," is a parasitic icebox-crasher to boot. He refuses to move off the Baxter's porch rocker until frightened by the word "bath...
With might & main, the House committee investigating campaign expenditures pried into Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. last week, searching for some legal misstep which would give the committee a chance to crack down hard. But after diligent search through the woodpile, all they found was Sidney Hillman. And in him, they discovered, they had caught a Tartar. His political footwork made most of them look like stumblebums...
...uprising. They proclaimed a state of siege and dire punishment if armed revolt persisted. Theaters and cafes were closed, a curfew clamped on from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Parisians were ordered to stay away from their windows at all times, to leave doors open at night (for easy search). Gatherings of more than three persons were verboten...