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Last February, Department of Justice agents arrested a brush-haired American youth of Austrian parentage, Guenther Gustave Rumrich, formerly a sergeant in the U. S. Army, and a plump German fräulein, Johanna Hofmann. Rumrich's blundering offense was describing himself as "Mr. Weston, Under Secretary of State," a nonexistent character, while applying to the U. S. Passport Bureau in Manhattan for 50 blank passports. Fräulein Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa, was allegedly his accomplice, in a capacity, for which nature had not fitted her, of lure. On the strength of its coup...
...broguish, shrewdly philosophical Sergeant O'Hara of these volunteers, Cinemactor Robert Montgomery atones for much past preciousness, affirms what many cinemagoers discovered last year in Night Must Fall (TIME, May 10, 1937)-that he is an excellent actor. In his third cinema role, veteran Play Actor Charles Coburn (The Better 'Ole) gives a solid, bitter-edged portrayal of Dr. Carlos Finlay...
...shining exception to this pattern of War fiction is Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa. It is an old-fashioned moral study, and Author Zweig is almost the only War novelist for whom armed conflict is only a part of the war between good & evil that rages as fiercely when the guns are silent. Last week Author Zweig published the fourth volume of Grischa's moral story. A long and involved book called The Crowning of a King, it deals, superficially, with the intrigues of the German general staff over the selection of a king...
...blank petition was placed on the Speaker's desk, a swarm of Representatives was already beginning to crowd the well of the House. Jostling each other to get at the fountain pen which Aunt Mary handed to the impatient signers, the House members became so boisterous that the sergeant at arms was called on to exert his authority, marshaled them into a queue which gradually wound half way around the chamber. So many members were in so much of a hurry to put their names on the petition that Speaker Bankhead, after calling hopelessly for order, was forced...
...efforts of the State to get a confession by less scientific methods were unending. Earl at one point was put in solitary confinement for a year. A year ago State Patrol Sergeant Joseph McCauley disguised himself as a clergyman and went to see Mary. After a few visits he got her to thinking along religious lines and finally last week, five days before her sentence was up, she decided "to make herself right with her Maker." And Earl, she said, had not only killed James Bassett. When he was younger, in Montana, he had killed three other people...