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...well-known American tendency for joining seems to have spread even to those who are supposed to look askance at committing themselves, the rampant and juvenile variety of atheists. In The World's Work for June Homer Croy gives a survey of organizations which seem to be flourishing in certain schools and universities; united under the simple title of the Junior Athiest League, they include such formidable local societies as the Society of the Godless, God's Black Sheep, The Devil's Angles, and the Legion of the Damned; all sponsored by that non-athletic 4-A which seems...
When the World War broke, she, the 49-year-old matron of a medical institute at Brussels, transformed the institute into a Red Cross hospital. Moved by the plight of the British, French and Belgian wounded under her care, she conspired with Prince Reginald de Croy to smuggle into Holland numerous Allied soldiers for whom he contrived to forge passports. Arrested by the German Military Police, she confessed to abetting the escape into Holland of some 175 Britons, Frenchmen and Belgians of military...
...over the ridged seas that beleaguer Scotland, were puzzled last week by a pair of inexplicable water-fowl-larger, whiter, sleeker than they-which never rose into the air, but skirted the wavetops, their wings petitioning the wind. Through a calm off Bogany Land, round a buoy at Kerry Croy, on the tumbled reach to Blackhouse, one of these birds was always in front of the other. That one was the Lanai, U. S. six-metre boat, sailed by Sherman Hoyt, famed Long Island yachtsman...
...Homer Croy...
...author of West of the Water Tower* is tall, shy, wears a loose Oxford tie, is actually modest. He is also from Missouri. That, however, is not why he published his very successful novel anonymously. Homer Croy, having been a writer of humorous stories in the past, was afraid that the public wouldn't take him seriously when he wrote of the problems of adolescence and smalltown life in the Southwest. I had met him when his Boon Stop had just been published. He has changed little since then, except in the matter of his literary style...