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Many petitioners belong to the Confraternity of St. Christopher, have a medal inscribed: "Gaze upon St. Christopher, then go your way reassured." The medal carries an image of St. Christopher crossing a turbulent river with the Christ Child on his shoulder. In the background, as on a river bank, is an old-fashioned touring car with a long wheelbase, rakish fenders. Motorists tack the medal on the dashboards of their cars or above the windshield. Others carry the medal as a pocket piece...
...months he returned to the U. S., second class, wearing a wrinkled brown suit, khaki shirt, flannel tie, battered cap, carrying two pieces of luggage and a cardboard box. He bubbled with enthusiasm over the Russians who, he felt, had "the answer to the future." Such is his practical background for the forthcoming investigation of U. S.-U. S. S. R. relations...
...momentarily exhausted, there is always the Archduke Ferdinand and the affair at Sarajevo. With this as a starting point, Storm at Daybreak relates the tragic romance of a man who falls in love with his best friend's wife, played to the limit against an Austro-Serbian background and splendidly directed by Richard Boleslavsky...
...crowd, one of those who maintain, those who transmit, have a standard biography written for him with as much justification as one of the celebrities, one of those who improve?" Carr makes her question superfluously rhetorical. Like Inheritance (TIME, Sept. 12), Carr is a novel of Yorkshire, its background the textile industry of the West Riding.* Hero Carr's father was an absconding scoundrel, but that did not prevent Millman Ainsley from paying for young Carr's education, taking him into the mill and making him junior partner in Carr, Carr & Ainsley. In return, Carr was supposed...
...vain Professor Moley said on sailing. "I am going to make myself useful and furnish background for the Delegation." London whispers that Professor Moley, "The Isolationist," was coming to supersede Secretary Hull, "The Internationalist," dinned louder and louder until they beat like African war drums on the U. S. Delegation's sensitive ears...