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...LOCUST - Nathanael West-Random House...
...Lives Have Just Begun attempts instead a piece of reverent irony-the story of a French shepherd boy who, mistaking a joking troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...
...their bones almost sticking through their skins, their eyes seeming to pop out of their heads, lacking the energy even to brush away the swarms of flies covering their bodies. Scores of beggars greet incoming travelers. Still greatly flourishing is the opium poppy, which withstands drought, is immune from locust attacks. Despite the bustling, superficial prosperity of Teheran, all was not well last week in the Empire of the Shah-in-Shah...
...Louis Ward Wheelock Jr., his easygoing, active, second-in-command, with two momentous results: The agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices, a brick mansion at the corner of 16th & Locust Streets which was once the home of the shipbuilding Cramp family, where according to legend when a button is pushed in the art department it still registers a call from "Mrs. Cramp's bedroom...
Married. Louise Converse Morgan, 20, daughter of Banker Junius Spencer Morgan, eldest granddaughter of Banker John Pierpont Morgan; to Raymond Skinner Clark, 23; in Grandfather Morgan's Episcopal Church of St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, Long Island...