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Recent developments in the kitten situation indicate widespread public interest in the fate of the tiny feline received as a Valentine by Harold Thurston...
...merely my employer, but the dearest, kindest and most understanding friend. ... I feel as a man might feel who fell, unwillingly, from the window of a high-up room and yet kept his consciousness. ... I don't know how it happened and I am wildly tempted to call fate some very ugly names, if I had not just taken a sacred vow never to use gutter words again...
...Congressional committees investigated the Jeannette'?, fate, parts of Commander De Long's journal were published, but what happened in the two years in the ice pack remained a mystery. Piecing the story together from these documents and unpublished writings of other members of the crew, Commander Ellsberg (On the Bottom) has tried to make its terrors more oppressive by the device of having it told by Chief Engineer Melville as a first-hand observer. Not altogether successful, the device enables Commander Ellsberg to put hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that rob the book of authority...
...FATE OF THE GROSVENOR-Jonathan Lee-Covid-Friede ($2.75). A good story, lamely told, describing the wreck in 1782 of an Indiaman off the east coast of Africa, the harrowing 117-day march in which eight of the 100-odd survivors fought their way to the Cape...
...with a reference to a tale that had been going the sporting rounds for some time: "He was also honest in the case of Jack Smiley, who wrote a column for Screwball's paper ('the Daily Snooze') until he got too good and met the fate of all who dare make the Screwball look like what he is-a five-letter word rhyming with drowsy. After putting in a lot of research work on it, Smiley turned in a story on a prominent prize fighter, which Screwball thought too good to use in his own paper...