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...various other Naval Academy cadets exhibit fellowship, loyalty, and navy spirit at all times. the effect of the picture is in general to reassure timid souls that the U. S. navy watches over them night and day and that the world is still safe for love and sentiment. Nevertheless, Ms. Bel Scott's brief appearance on the stage is ample compensation even for "Shipmates Forever...
...lately been nobbled (kidnapped) and is by way of being nobbled again. Which is why Lord Tilbury is seized by his beefy scruff and thrust into a dark and dirty shed. And why young Monty Bodkin, his discharged subeditor, regains employment with His Lordship. And why, since the ms. of the racy reminiscences is the other jewel of the plot, the Empress ultimately makes a meal of said ms. and, one complication having thus consumed another, the agreeable young people involved (the other young man is Ronnie Fish; the girls, "good old" Gertrude Butterwick and Sue Brown) are free...
...manuscript of Vol. I of Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, mysteriously stolen from a loan exhibition last autumn at Columbia University (TIME, Dec. 5). He was whisked in at once to Mr. Morgan. For five months world police had been watching pawnshops and "fences" for the MS. The man said quietly, "Would you be interested in getting back Guy Mannering on a basis of no questions asked, no money paid?'' Mr. Morgan said, "Yes." The man left and soon a messenger brought the manuscript to the Morgan Library...
...scholar. He wrote two-thirds of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his history of the Arab revolt, at odd moments during the Peace Conference at Paris; the introduction was written in an airplane flying from Paris to Cairo. At Reading railway station, the following December, the two-thirds-finished MS was stolen. He set to and rewrote the whole thing in three months? 34,000 words of it at one sitting, between sunrise and sunrise. Published and distributed privately, the book cost him some £10,000. To pay off his debt he made a popular abridgment (in two nights, with...
...Percy Felio MS.," Professor Maynadier, Sever...