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...China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where she turned up an astounding old Russian panhandler about whom she wrote her last book, Pull Devil, Pull Baker (TIME, July...
...that old devil Harvard indifference steals in and makes a Hamlet of every possible enthusiast by whispering "Let someone else do it." One vicious little idea prevents any concrete accomplishment. So the CRIMSON, to end a worn-out issue and to fulfil a traditional role as leader of undergraduate intellectualism presents a plan for action. If anyone is seriously interested in the matter, he is urged to form a committee, proselytize, secure if possible a patroness as generous and energetic as the French films have had, and so to set up the machinery for presenting the films...
...Thanksgiving Eve "Poor Devil" was idling through the Sept. 23 issue of The Literacy Digest. On p. 8 was a news photograph which made him suddenly shout, "That's me! That...
...picture showed a Department of Agriculture official handing crop reports to newspapermen in Washington at precisely 3 p. m. a hot summer day. Cried "Poor Devil": "Find out who signs all the papers to confiscate tainted crops, and that...
...telegram quickly provided "Poor Devil's" identity. Again he was authentically Harry Stockton Boon, auditor for the Department of Agriculture in whose service he has spent 16 years. He left Washington seven weeks ago. Last week he was on his way to San Diego to visit his brother. Captain Ben Boon of the U. S. Army...