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...COFFIN FOR THE CORPSE-Clayfon Rawson-Little, Brown & Co. ($2). A rich spiritualism devotee sees the ghost of a blackmailer he slugged and buried, and is later himself found slain in the locked and weaponless room of a Mamaroneck mansion. Merlini, an ex-magician with a vast fund of illusionistic lore and rare deductive skill, enters the case to help a much-involved reporter friend and remains to produce a subtle and unsuspected slayer. Superabundant-and engrossing- data about spirits, fakirs and magic slightly retard the movement of an otherwise excellent story...
...George Tobias, Reginald Gardiner, et al.) who have to learn that modern air combat is a young man's business. Cagney complicates matters further by appropriating another busher's girl (Brenda Marshall). He squares everything in the end by fatally ramming a pesky Messerschmitt 109 with his weaponless bomber-thus clearing the Atlantic crossing for the rest of the ferry pilots, who high-tail it for England while he drops dizzily into...
...Comrades," pleaded Poet Cowley, "not weaponless, not to crumple under fire. No farther, comrades." But the comrades marched right on, even in the face of "an enormous thundercrack...
...their lives, they knew themselves prejudged. Trial proceedings, it was announced, would be published only as they touched on France's unpreparedness for war. Discussion of the origins of the war would be strictly secret. Thus Frenchmen would be told only that they were summoned to die almost weaponless by the leaders who were on trial. Frenchmen would learn nothing of the forces that compelled these old men to lead a weak, ailing nation to doom...
Although he is weaponless Siegmund is forced to accept and Hunding goes to bed after drinking a long draft of ale. Sieglinde, who had earlier been ordered from the room, reappears and tells Siegmund to try and draw from a great oak the sword which was thrust in it by the Gods. Siegmund, with a mighty effort, draws the sword and thereby proves that he is Sieglinde's brother and the greatest warrior on earth...