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...magazine was the Canadian Journal of Commerce, a cheaply printed monthly with a small circulation. The October issue, which was the one that made Mr. Macaulay righting mad, bore this caption on its front page...
...Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine," "Satan's Little Lamb." When Ladies Meet (by Rachel Croth- ers; John Golden, producer). Everything Mary Howard (Frieda Inescort) did bore the hallmark of success. Her novels sold, the ivy on her Manhattan terrace grew, her life and friends operated efficiently. Yet she was lonely. Her closest male companion, an easy-going Philip Barry character named Jimmy (Walter Abel), adored her in an embarrassed, tail-wagging sort of way. Mary wanted...
...directly responsible for this G. 0. P. campaign was plump, easy-going National Chairman Everett Sanders. A small-bore Indiana politician, he appeared to his colleagues to be completely swamped by the magnitude of his job. Last week in Manhattan he beamed serious good cheer. "The campaign," he insisted, "is going along very well. We are in splendid condition. The country is Republican by several million votes. We have a good Republican President. . . . The tour of Governor Roosevelt through the West has tremendously helped the Republican party...
...more intense, individual battles between airmen and Russian troops became of prime importance. So vicious was the Squadron's strafing that the Soviet Commissars put a price of 12,500 gold rubles on the U. S. flyers' heads, later doubled it. Hawking over enemy territory, pilots would bore down out of the sun, both machine guns bucking. If the concentration was heavy, they would let fly the plane's two bombs...
...brevity and simplicity of his narrative should please unexacting readers. The theme: Sheila as a girl had been in love with Gordon, but he had gone away, she had married Dermot. Though she wanted children, none came. Then Gordon appeared again. As a result of their brief passion Sheila bore a son, Barry. Gordon at first knew nothing of his existence; everyone but Sheila thought he was Dermot's son. Years later, his mother and father dead, Barry met Gordon's daughter Meredith. Not knowing they were half-brother and sister they fell in love. Poet Robinson Jeffers...