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...CORPSE STEPS OUT-Craig Rice - Simon and Schuster ($2). Nelle Brown, glamorous radio singer, gets into three fast murders-and out again all right because her lawyer, lover and press agent are smart fellows. Hard-drinking, tight-living, hilarious stuff...
...nick of time, James Craig lets the animals out all over again. Miss Lane gets the skull when the volcano erupts, explodes and buries Mr. Ciannelli. Says Tom Fadden, patting the skull as Miss Lane and he drop leisurely downstream a few minutes later: "Old fellow, when we get back from this, you and I are going on a two-week bender...
...second annual meeting, the Mother-in-Law Association of Saks Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president...
...interest to the higher ideal of the community of nations, the American people must be prepared. Here is the special task and obligation of Christian leadership at the present time." Among those who signed: Episcopal Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker; Episcopal Bishops William Scar lett of Missouri, George Craig Stewart of Chicago, Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio, Edward Lambe Parsons of California, Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts; Methodist Bishops Ivan Lee Holt of Dallas, Francis John McConnell of New York; Presidents Charles Seymour of Yale University, Mildred Helen McAfee of Wellesley College, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (acting) of Smith...
Equipment is the Army's sore point. Because until lately the U. S. people planned things that way, their prospective "Army in Being" must fill huge holes in its supplies if it is to be ready to fight on call. As recently as 1938, Chief of Staff Malin Craig figured that $142,000,000 should be enough to plug the biggest gaps (modern field artillery, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, rapid-fire rifles, tanks, gas masks, ammunition). For such ordnance the Army last year got almost as much as Malin Craig had begged, in last week...