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...That Parthian arrow was as cruel as it was inaccurate. Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, is "old" to be sure, 63 fateful years in all. But it has never been "shabby." Under the masterful direction of Col. Matt J. Winn, Churchill Downs . . . struggling with small means, was never "shabby" even in the old days. Under Col. Winn's guidance, each year the Downs's seating capacity has been added to and its comfort and its beauty increased. This year, with an expenditure of over $200,000 the entire Churchill Downs plant has been transformed until...
...Lewis Grassic Gibbon. An authority on Mayan civilization (The Conquest of the Maya TIME, Feb. 4), he had written a Scottish-dialect trilogy (previously published: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe) and another big novel (to be published in the U. S. next season). Grey Granite, Author Gibbon's posthumous Parthian shaft, was the concluding volume of his trilogy...
...Parthian shaft in more ways than one, Grey Granite closes the romantic story of Chris Colquohoun (pronounced "Gaboon") in a manner that may take its readers somewhat aback. After surviving the two husbands of the earlier books, Chris has gone with her grown-up son Ewan to the industrial town of Duncairn. There she spends her days in drudgery as partner in a boarding house, while Ewan starts work at an iron foundry. Written in the same earthy dialect as its predecessors, Grey Granite is peopled with no less salty characters, but the sign of the restless times lies heavier...
...YORK TEMPEST-Manuel Komroff-Coward-McCann ($2.50). THE RIPENING-Colette-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). HOT WATER-P. G. Vodehouse- Doubleday, Dor an ($2). WHEN THE GANGS COME TO LON- DON-Edgar WTallace-Crime Club ($2). Another posthumous Parthian shot from the late great detectifictioneer. THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT-Emi- lie and Georges Romieu-Dutton ($3-75)-Rodomontadinous French biography of one Mary Ann Evans, writer...
...some years since she began popping out these oaths; you expect them now, and feel a little cheated when she fails you. She fails often in Death and Taxes, is sometimes reminiscent of minor-but-masculine Poet A. E. Housman, more often of Any Sentimentalist. A Parthian poetess, her chief claim to attention still resides in her parting kick...