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...Statesman and Nation editorial said: "[Daladier] has a more personal responsibility for the initial military failure than any single British statesman. . . . There is little doubt that his going will influence political developments in Britain. Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Caldecote, Lord Simon and Sir Kingsley Wood . . . are tarred with the same brush...
...Hill did succeed in entertaining royalty: Queen Marie of Rumania, who left several crates of royal presents, crowned the huge edifice with the words: "There is a dream built into these walls." Sam Hill's dream house, standing out among the surrounding sage brush as incongruously as a top hat in a jungle, became a famed landmark. Some said Sam Hill expected to establish a monarchy in the neighboring mountains. Others hinted that he expected his castle to serve as officers' quarters in a future war with invading Japanese forces. To most Washingtonians it was simply "Sam Hill...
...years ago Katharine Brush decided to start afresh, "not my old way, but the free-style way, where you just let 'er rip." She wrote anything and everything, semiautomatically, filed it away in eight big cabinets labeled "Ideas," "Characters F," "Characters M," etc. Soon she felt better. But she now badly reeded cash. So she suggested to her publishers, Farrar & Rinehart, that they bring cut a volume of her short stories...
...result is this 436-page "scrapbook-diary-letter-what's it-autobiography," containing 22 reprinted short stories and sketches dating from 1924. The stories might well have been left out. The autobiography makes lively reading, a free-&-easy, self-quizzical account of Author Brush's rise from a boarding-school tomboy and diarist to Boston movie critic, to East Liverpool, Ohio housewife, to sports reporter, to best-sellerette. It is a welcome change from the usual preening of popular authors on How-I-Learned-to-Write. Katharine Brush really contributes something new (as well as humorous...
...fatal effect of the Depression was to make her start analyzing her own work. "When you start saying 'Why?,' " says Katharine Brush, "it throws...