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...heart of the Joe Robinson that I have known." Borah in Brooklyn. Meanwhile in Brooklyn, a Republican performer who has for years been packing the U. S. Senate's galleries made another oblique bid for the Presidency. Well equipped for the role, with locks as long as Booth's, 70-year-old Hamlet Borah began with the candid remark: "I do not natter myself that I can bring to you any new or startling message. "I am not going ... to indulge in what must be a pleasant pastime, that of regaling one's personal qualifications...
...confused with the Salvation Army, the Volunteers of America was founded in the U. S. in 1896 by General Ballington Booth & wife following a Booth family schism...
...LORENZO BUNCH-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran ($2). "There always will be books but perhaps the only books in the future will be reference books, scientific books and research books." Thus gloomily spoke aging Novelist Newton Booth Tarkington fortnight ago. If he was thinking of the probable life of his forthcoming novel, The Lorenzo Bunch, or of the books written by that perishably popular U. S. school of which he is the acknowledged dean, he did well to be gloomy. Even Monsieur Beancaire, though it may have been written with crocodile tears, will not evaporate as fast as The Lorenzo Bunch...
Unharmed, Calvocoressi walked to a telephone booth and reported the holdup. The police found the car later in the evening in the place indicated by the gunmen...
...Novelist Booth Tarkington predicted: ''The novel and the poem may become extinct in 200 years, 100 years or in much less time. Radio and talking pictures already have displaced books in many homes and television will injure the popularity of books. There always will be books but perhaps the only books in the future will be reference books, scientific-books and research books...