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LETTERS OF GROVER CLEVELAND-Selected & edited by Allan Nevins-Houghton Mifflin...
...letters, written always for an audience but seldom for publication,* are apt to give a better likeness of him than his posed and dressed-up biographical portrait. If he was a good letter-writer, they are better reading. But Grover Cleveland was not a good letter-writer. Says Editor Allan Nevins, whose Life of Cleveland was the 1933 Pulitzer-Prizewinning biography: "It was characteristic of Cleveland that he wrote many letters about public business, few about his personal affairs or personal feelings...
...laboratory at the University of Alabama's medical school, Professor Allan Walker Blair, 33, has discovered that the "black widow" spider's poison kills rats and mice, makes guinea pigs sick, does not bother dogs and cats. He has long wondered how it would affect human beings. Last week he found...
...make a fiendish butcher out of an idealistic sculptor. (Don't worry, Dix is a sculptor for only a few minutes). Serious injury restores him to peaceful citizenship and she who taunted him finds happiness again in his arms, while planning for the acquisition of eight children. Elizabeth Allan is the feminine interest, or at least is intended to be, for again we have only the preview's word for it that there is any interest whatsoever in the picture. Miss Allan's face is squat, her acting a nonentity, but her figure is lissome. It is a shame that...
...Eddy Rogers and Allan Sherman, will be in the starting lineup when the Varsity meets the Army in the Stadium this Saturday. These changes were revealed at the close of a drab and uninteresting practice session at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon...