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...Muhlen's life of Schacht) was Hermann Rauschning's best-selling Revolution of Nihilism. He also published Boris Souvarine's Stalin, began Alliance's Face of America books about the U.S. Among his latest are Rauschning's The Redemption of Democracy (TIME, March 3), Patten's Mr. Frank Merriwell (see col. 1), Wells's All Aboard for Ararat (see p. 108). Koppell also has high hopes for Dorsha Hayes's The American Primer, a 152-page, vernacular introduction of the U.S. to U.S. citizens, somewhat along the lines of Ilin...
...FRANK MERRIWELL-Gilbert Patten-Alliance...
Only Jim Welsh of Michigan and possibly his teammate, Jack Patten, can be rated above the Crimson captain, who turned in a sizzling 2:13.8 to win the furlong in the Eastern Intercollegiates at Annapolis last Saturday. Welsh swam a 2:11.4 earlier in the season, but Powers was clocked in 2:11.2 in a practice session and with two more weeks of training might conceivably chop off a few more tenths of a second...
Yale's proudest son, oldtime Pulp Hero Frank Merriwell, 60, now being revived by his creator, "Burt L. Standish" (Gilbert Patten, who last week went to Camden, Me. to finish The Return of Frank Merriwell), has become a small-town editor (Millville, U. S. A.), dauntlessly crusades against vice, still fixes all comers with "a calm and steady gaze...
Aged Hackwriter Gilbert Patten, who wrote the once-famed "Frank Merriwell" books, reminisced: "The stories were written in a Victorian age. ... If I did them today, I'd make the characters more natural. Frank used to say, 'You're a great guy.' Now I'd make him say, 'You're a damned fine...