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...SWEET TALK, by Beatrice Burton Morgan (Farrar & Rinchart, $2). The "eternal triangle" blossoms o u t in new form, with plenty of sweet talk by three sisters who try to win the attention of wealthy bachelors and end up in homes more suited to their middle-class Cleveland background. Story holds interest well, but is too obviously pointed to catch the attention of film scenarists...
...CAPTAIN CAUTION, by Kenneth Roberts (Double day, Doran, $2.50). A salty sea and smashing romance p r o v i d e the interest in this thriller, built with the War of 1812 as a background. A Maine skipper abandons the ordinary life of the "old salt" and turns privateer to provide the reader with high adventure. The routine of his new business is not routine for the reader, however, and Writer Roberts h a s avoided even the slightest possibility of your experiencing a dull moment...
...examination is obviously due to the fact that in order to pass it a factual knowledge is not sufficient. In preparing for it the discretion of the teacher is allowed the widest possible freedom. The examination, itself, therefore, is not concerned with details, but emphasizes critical power and literary background. Stress is laid upon education, not cramming...
William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony had a few exciting moments when drum beats drilled out a climax in true African fashion. But for the rest Composer Dawson appeared to have forgotten his primitive background. After his shoe-shining days in Anniston, Ala., he worked ambitiously at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. He studied music in Kansas City, later in Chicago where Conductor Frederick Stock chose him for his first trombonist. He returned to Tuskegee in 1930, to head the music department, direct the choir...
...coming or going." His youthful ambition was to be a champion weightlifter. When he was 23 he performed the terrific feat of raising a 250-lb. dumbbell above his head. Satisfied with that, he turned to literature. Before he started reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover for background he had plowed his way through 10,000 other volumes, compiled an anthology called The Philosophy of Life...