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...ways than one). Mr. Hutchinson may be the publicity seeker: he may even have beamed with delight over some of his notoriety: if so he has his reward. The Post's comment has certainly mingled his wine with wries however, and for you to reprint this seems a bit unTiMEly. His mistake in this case has no bearing on the one of the past [embezzling] and vice versa. What he needs now are sound advice and boosts, not blows which strike below the belt...
...greeted with a lily. And always American, he does not escape that particularly American kind of snobism about titles. When he boasts that of the three boxers in Burke's Peerage, three are his personal friends, he is little short of ridiculous. And one is becoming a bit weary of people the Prince of Wales calls by their first names, to say nothing of those who make the discovery that under all their reserve Englishmen are really "fine fellows...
...despite these minor irritations, "Fighting for Fun" is a story of healthy, Vigorous sport, untainted by professionalism, and of a vivid, if a bit egocentric, personality. Although he can hardly be considered as a great literary artist, Eddie Eagan has written a terse, straight-forward narrative, both interesting and refreshing...
...wheat, corn, cotton, etc. etc.) there will be a chart to show the amount of energy expended each year in production, the number of men employed, working hours, volume produced and flow of goods. By last week about 150 charts were completed and the Technocrats permitted themselves a first bit of publicity...
...ship in the sweltering heat of the tropics get into conversation. One is a young scientist returning to Africa to continue his exploration, the other an Anglican missionary going back to his jungle parish. As often happens they talk about their careers; and the scientist, a bit embarrassed at talking so much, tells of his search for Kamongo, the lung fish, who, when the dry season domes along, buries himself in the harioning mud and lives by merely breathing through an air hole, and who dis when you put him in water for any length of time...