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...never studied just this material, he has never read this book, he has never heard this lecturer, and he is making a sincere effort the first few weeks to enjoy it. For him there is everything to gain, and nothing to lose; and it may not be entirely his fault if in the end he lose...
...seconds by taking Perry's shots just before the top of the bounce, stinging his steady backhanders into Perry's farthest corner, Crawford worked along sedately in the second set while his opponent's tension mounted with the score. At 11-all, Perry made a double fault that unraveled his nerves long enough for Crawford to break through on the next point, then win the set on his own serve. A long second set is most valuable to win. At 4-all and 30-40 in the third, Perry watched an easy lob drop, decided...
LAMB IN HIS BOSOM-Caroline Miller- Harper ($2). Many a prize-winning author might be proud to have written such a quiet, unpretentious little masterpiece as Lamb in His Bosom. After reading it, many who also read the Harper Prize Novel (The Fault of Angels, TIME, Aug. 28) may wonder why Lamb in His Bosom did not get the prize, may recall rumors that at least one of the judges (Dorothy Canfield. Sinclair Lewis, Harry Hansen) voted in its favor. Authoress Miller may miss the prize-money but Lamb in His Bosom can get along without any such endorsement...
...help him get settled. This was a pleasant enough job, and when Arenkoffs wife Nina arrived, John adored her at sight. Nina was intense: she often wept quietly for hours because life was so sad. She was also very beautiful and (according to Author Horgan) intelligent. Her principal fault was the fault of angels - ambition; she could not settle down anywhere with out trying to set the place spiritually to rights. In Dorchester she soon made a series of grand sensations. She made and wrecked parties by her presence, got her self arrested in order to reinstate a poor...
...mixed society. No fool, Horgan found he was no Chaliapin either. When he was offered a job as librarian in the New Mexico Military Institute he took it, still has it. Young (30), unmarried, Author Horgan has found time to write and discard five novels before The Fault of Angels, his first to be published...