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The Price of Being Sensible
Fles, Barthold | May 18, 1932 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Two Living and One Dead," by Sigurd Christiansen. This inter-Scandinavian prize novel treats of a strange interlude, a phantasmagoria, lasting nine years, in the humdrum existence of a mail clerk in a small Norwegian town. The story starts off with a sensational hold-up in the post office. Of the three clerks on duty, one, Kvisthus, resists and is killed, the second, Lyderson, raises an outcry and is knocked unconscious, but Erik Berger, the third clerk, after a moment's hesitation steps aside and surrenders his cash box to the two masked robbers, who escape, leaving the "two living and one dead" on the scene.

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TWO Living & One Dead (Book); CHRISTIANSEN, Sigurd; PRIZES (Property captured at sea); FICTION; POSTAL service; CLERKS
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