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X. JONES OF SCOTLAND YARD-Harry Stephen Keeler-Dutton ($2.50). A wordy, almost interminable, brain-addler is this sequel to The Marceau Case, presented as a complete dossier of photos, letters, cables, clippings.
Rain fell one day last month in a little Kansas town called Ulysses, in Grant County. A local correspondent for a grain elevator house flashed the word to his Kansas City office. Direct wires carried the news to Chicago and Manhattan, where cables whipped it on to Liverpool and Buenos...
Festooned with a maze of cables, wires, tanks, cylinders, hand-wheels, steel support frames bolted to the ceiling, a control board studded with dials, the underground laboratory looked something like the inside of a submarine. The Svedberg centrifuge's 7-in. disk rotates at 60,000 r.p.m., has a...
Hours ahead of time the river bank was black with people for miles on either shore. The two most powerful tugs in Glasgow puffed importantly about the stern. Six lesser tugs stood by. At 9:30 a. m. the bridge gave the first order: "Let go!" Then down to the...
Collector Isham was a onetime lieutenant colonel on Sir Douglas Haig's staff, Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He sent no cables but appeared at Malahide Castle in person, and over the teacups the deal was done. Isham had promised Lord Talbot not to persuade the...