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...Harcourt, Brace ($2). Only Iowans can properly judge how truly Author Stong's 14th novel* mirrors Iowa life, but any hayseed can tell that Author Stong has seen some strongly improbable cinemas. Author Stong, however, has plentifully seasoned this fare with generous helpings of sardonic Iowa humor. Grandpa Storr, a cross between Falstaff and King Lear, talked like Mark Twain in unexpurgated mood. His language and actions were equally offensive to his household, consisting of: his nephew's wife (wicked), his stepdaughter (foolish), her husband (weak). They sat around like jackals waiting for him to die, watching their...
With a plot no more preposterous than many detective stories, Man with the Painted Head contrives an atmosphere more realistic than most. The artists' colony at Storr's Point was isolated, inaccessible except through one gate which was kept locked. When middle-aged Miss Fenwick arrived to visit her niece she and the taxi-driver would have been perturbed had they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts...
From this pitch of lyric arson, Cyprus' revolt inevitably calmed down as armed Britons rushed to Storr's aid. It took a troop of Royal Welch Fusiliers all night to bump 50 miles over awful roads from their encampment on Mount-Troodos. But soon after dawn their mud-spattered trucks snorted into Nicosia and the mob was cowed...
...annual examinations to scientifically-minded boys, no more scholarships. Explanation offered: none. The name of the Yale junior who last month in The Harkness Hoot attacked Yale's senior honor societies and urged his classmates to boycott them by staying in their rooms on Tap Day, was Richard Storr Quids (TIME, May 4). Last week came Tap Day. Junior Childs stayed in his room. When a senior from Scroll & Key knocked on the door, Junior Childs let him in, took the tap, joined...
...Soviet instruction is based on the three elements, nature study, labor activity, and sociology," said Dr. Lloyd Storr-Best in his talk on Education in Soviet Russia at the Phillips Brooks House last night. Dr. Storr-Best, who has been carrying on investigations in Russia for the British Government, went on to say, "Russian children are taught agriculture and the phenomena of every day natural life in addition to the problems of labor and of their own social relations...