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Stems. In Washington, Mrs. Bruce Baird, wife of a banker, got the better of the silk shortage. Whenever a stocking went to pieces she embroidered a flower on the hole, a stem down...
BLACK ORCHIDS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe and his ebullient amanuensis Archie Goodwin are here at top form in two "novellas" -"Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." The first concerns a cleverly contrived murder at New York's annual Flower Show. The second features an adroit bit of poisoning in the fantastic Riverdale ménage- and menagerie-of a successful party-arranger for Manhattan society. First-class entertainment...
Waugh's hero ghost is ratlike, inexorably likable Basil Seal, the flower of British adventurousness degraded to magenta.* War draws him and his fellow ghosts into one of those ornamental tourniquet-and-candy- box knots which only Waugh knows how to tie. But Waugh's dross and gloss should deceive nobody for long; he has become one of the most deadly serious moralists of his generation. Every one of his novels had its masked importance. History helps make Put Out More Flags his most important book...
Died. Thorvald Stauning, 68, towering, red-bearded Prime Minister of Denmark; in Copenhagen. Flower-loving, neighbor-loving, he was a sentimental plumper of "Greenland for the Eskimos." wrote a best-selling book titled My Trip to Greenland, believed, till too late, in the neighborliness of Denmark's neighbors...
...author of the Harper prize novel, The Fault of Angels, other fiction about the Southwest. The resulting A Tree on the Plains is a musically modest opera, occasionally rising to heights of beauty, mainly important as a signpost that opera is turning from an exotic plant into a wayside flower, part of the American scene...