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...Myself (by Adelyn Bushnell; Malcom L. Pearson & Donald E. Baruch, pro-ducers). Bill Trent, an unsuccessful New England lawyer, hires a hobo to kill him, thus sending his soul into the Invisible. In the After Life, Bill meets his old A. E. F. top sergeant, who accompanies him back to watch his own funeral. Bill is properly impressed with the obsequies, but it soon becomes evident that his death is not the boon to his family he had hoped. His $50,000 insurance does not prevent Mrs. Trent's being suspected of murder, does not help his daughter...
...invited the Minister of Commerce in Premier Tatarescu's Cabinet to join. To clear his conscience, the colonel called on the King to remonstrate with him about Lupescu, turned a little threatening. He was thrown out. Last fortnight he put through an order to Sergeant Major Charles Savinau for a case of hand grenades. The sergeant major told his colonel that he thought the grenades were wanted for no good end; the colonel called in the police. Savinau delivered the grenades anyway, after taking the precaution of emptying out the powder. But when he arrived with them, his eyes...
KALEIDOSCOPE - Stefan Zweig - Viking ($3). Thirteen stories by an author who is clever but does not deserve to be confused with Arnold Zweig who wrote The Case of Sergeant Grischa...
...names of the writers of such communications are confidential. They give their names to the editor in the belief that confidence will not be betrayed and it will not." After further attempts to browbeat Editor Armentrout into committing the unpardonable sin of journalism, the committee ordered a sergeant-at-arms to take him to the Frankfort jail...
...always swiftly, always surely, always, as such things go, with an impressive lack of fuss. The troop is winding along the desert; the lieutenant in command is shot down from ambush, and with him to the grave, go the men's orders and geographical location. Under Victor McLaglen, top sergeant, the remaining eleven find their way to an oasis. Next morning, the youthful sentry is found knifed, the horses are gone. Two are sent out to bring aid; they are returned dead, strapped to their mounts. A private climbs a palm tree to reconnoitre, and falls with a bullet through...