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...irrelevance to the context. Ed Fulton likes lilacs and Tennyson's poetry, wants his family to be happy. His daughter is unhappy because she is treated like a child, and because her sweetheart's father is an old enemy of Ed Fulton's. When the young pair go off for a clandestine weekend and are seen posing as ''Mr. & Mrs. Johnson'' on a garish hotel terrace, the escapade takes on a tawdriness which a similar situation in Yes, My Darling Daughter (see p. 46) escapes. Fulton goes after them, pretending...
...Raymond Jesup Garbutt of the S. P. C. A. demonstrated a new bloodless way which he has invented to retrieve canine inedibles. Thrusting a 36-in. forceps down the throat of a bull terrier, Dr. Garbutt removed successively an 8-oz. lead sinker, a wrist watch, a sparkplug, a pair of dice...
Died. Robert Milam Caldwell, 61, nephew of Democratic Elder Statesman Colonel Edward Mandell House; when an electric grindstone at his ranch exploded, hurling a pair of sheep shears against his throat, severing his jugular vein; near Houston...
Turning the tables on their opponents, the Yardlings outplayed the Terrior pups from the opening bell of the second session. Dan Roosevelt and Vin Francis, dependable defense pair, distributed effective body checks at opportune moments while Ervin scored two goals assisted by Winslow and Eaton. Turning on the heat still more proved to be of little aid as Richardson, B.U. center, caught the defence down the ice and beat Freedley to put the score...
ESCAPE TO THE TROPICS-Desmond Holdridge-Harconrt, Brace ($2.50). Fresh account, with photographs, of a blissful experiment in "savagery, barbarism and civilization" at bargain prices on the island of St. John, V. I., by a newlywed pair who fled New York to escape the big corporations, the political rabies of their Depression-time friends. On a side trip into Dutch Guiana Author Holdridge found warm, if contradictory clues to the fate of Paul Redfern, the lost flyer, but lacked money to follow them...