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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...government he was now prepared to challenge. His task was to answer the historic objections to the Third Term-the tenet of democracy which holds that the great reservoir of democratically trained citizens can always yield new leaders; that one danger of democracy is that an ambitious Executive may use the power of his office to keep himself in power. As he sat in the silent White House room, his words carrying to a silent meeting of the Democratic Convention in Chicago, his task was also to make it clear, if clear he could make it. why these beliefs were...
...World War I, General Brooke invented a barrage map for directing artillery fire which came into wide use. He is called Britain's best-informed tank and anti-tank man, "Wizard" because his knowledge of gunnery is so well-rounded he is also an anti-aircraft ace. Spectacled, dark, pinched, with a close-clipped mustache, he looks more like a "City" broker than the soldier-sportsman that he is (in the Army since 1902). His fox-hunting Irish father was Master of the Pau pack (supposed descendants of hounds with which Wellington's officers hunted in Spain...
Detectifiction addicts know strange curare as the exotic drug which causes undiagnosable death. Richard Gill knew it as the dark brown, pitchlike poison brewed by the Amazon Indians, who use it to tip the darts of their blowguns. Some two or three minutes after a victim is hit by a curare dart, he dies...
...handle a knife & fork, he headed for his ranch in the Amazon jungle. He was in charge of an expedition, financed by Philanthropist Sayre Merrill, 1) to worm from the Indians the black magic of curare cooking, 2) to bring back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best parts of his somewhat flamboyantly written book (Sample: "The days streaked by like frightened parrots") report how the searcher succeeded, how he won the confidence of the suspicious brujos...
...sake of Frenchy's metallic wife, whom he svengalizes into a smash singer, the whole band ripens for trouble. It bursts, at length, in a riverfront dive in St. Louis. At the end of it George Baker has realized his own powers and is free at last to use them: but whether he can, after years of creative suicide, the Walters hypnosis, the fertility of opposition, he is not quite sure...