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...friend, Racketeer-Reporter Jake Lingle of the Chicago Tribune (TIME, June 23). He narrowly escaped death last month when foes opened fire on an automobile of which he was an occupant in South State Street. Last week swart Jack Zuta strolled across the dance floor of a roadhouse at Delafield, Wis. He had just telephoned a girl in Chicago. He had a dime in his hand which he dropped into the mechanical piano. He looked happy. The mechanical piano began to grind out "Good...
TURN BACK THE LEAVES-E. M. Delafield-Harper...
Though Author E. M. Delafield expressly states in a foreword that this book is not intended as propaganda against the Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics will find little aid and comfort in it. Most of the characters are Catholic and are shown in a kindly light, but the villain of the piece is also the most faithful churchman. The tragedy hinges on the Catholic rules for marriage, against divorce...
Author Elizabeth M. Delafield (Dashwood) is partly French, has lived in the Malay States, but her books are all of English country and life. Her work has had a moderate, steadily increasing success in the U. S. A keen, faintly satirical observer, in Turn Back the Leaves she has written a tragedy of frustration too deep for satire. During the War, Author Delafield did Red Cross work, wrote her first novel in her spare time. She lives in Devonshire. Other books: Mrs. Harter, The Chip and the Block, Jill, The Way Things Are, First Love...
...rangy cadets of St. John's Military Academy at Delafield, Wis., are very, very good boys this summer, apart from their religious duties of attending evensong five times a week and chapel on Sundays, they will learn quite a lot about fly-and bait-casting. For last week that famed itinerant casting-expert "Smiling Bill" Vogt said definitely that during July & August he would show St. John's cadets how he works. He has signed a performance contract with Col. Roy Felton Farrand, St. John's graduate and president.* "Smiling Bill" Vogt is a hulky six-footer...