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...truck with holding companies, has only common stock (few bonds), has constantly slashed its rates. Head of this white sheep of the utility industry has long been genial old Samuel Ferguson, who four years ago moved up to chairman, turned over the presidency to handsome, Danish-born Viggo E. Bird. Last week, to Hartford's openmouthed horror, Viggo Bird turned out to be an embezzler...
This was the closest scandal had ever come to Hartford Electric Light Co. and it went no further. Viggo Bird resigned at once and Samuel Ferguson resumed the presidency, announced that the embezzlement did not involve the utility but New London Northern R. R. Co., of which Viggo Bird was treasurer...
...Danube contains eight sensitive, compact sketches by Erskine Caldwell, 64 photographs which include some of the best Margaret Bourke-White has done. Slighter than their classic word & picture study of the South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected by a chauffeur with club and revolver, the authors distributed black bread to starving...
Theme of this gracefully padded first novel: intellectuals are hawks, plain citizens are sparrows. Intellectual Kipter, a bearded, philosophical, moulting bird, goes to board in a nest of lower-middle-class sparrows: a voluptuous ex-chorus girl and her 17-year-old niece. Fascinated, the female sparrows twitter around his bedroom, while Kipter pays them cautious compliments. Blamed for fouling the nest when he merely pushes the landlady out to protect his virtue, the hawk makes a back-window exit just in time to save his tail feathers. Hawk Among the Sparrows is less a warning to high-flying intellectuals...
...defense positions were held by Blotner, Benedix, Tonner, Gilbert, Doughty, Bird, and Sullivan. At center there were Willard, Doughty, Childs, and Tonner. Leading the attack were Zouck, Bird, Sullivan, Halstead, Gilbert, adn Anderson. Captain Hammond was at out home all through the matches, as Riecken, Ieradt, Halstead, alternated at in home...