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...authors' author. His cultivation of the "stream-of-consciousness" method, use of a wide-angled lens in picturing his landscapes, resulted in writing too hard for the general reader. Other authors have taken from Maestro Joyce a hint here & there, or have aped him slavishly for the precious few. Herr Doblin is the first to copy him on a large scale and for a wide audience. Perhaps only through such filters as Alexander platz will Joyce's strong waters be made potable to the public...
...Again. When Charles Victor Bob, strapping, breezy and likeable, emerged from the West with tall tales of precious metals, he found a friend and supporter in elderly, rich August Heckscher of Manhattan. It must have grieved Friend Heckscher to learn, last October, that Promoter Bob had vanished, left behind records which demanded his arrest when he was found (TIME...
...little fact precious to ship operators was reported last week by Western Reserve University's Professor John Paul Visscher upon his return to Cleveland from two months among the Tortugas: barnacles, shellfish which attach themselves to ship hulls and thereby impede speed, have a sense akin to the sense of smell which makes them recoil from certain chemicals. Professor Visscher's intention is to mix a chemical of disagreeable, repellent smell into the hull paint, thus prevent barnacles clinging...
...Novel Contest. Last winner was Expatriate Julian Green's The Dark Journey, a well-written bad seller. This time Publisher Harper, twice shy, has given his prize-money for a book that should not make his ledgers see red. Brothers in the West will not appeal to the precious few but should be read, wept over, thoroughly enjoyed by the common-or-garden reader...
Seven years ago Goodnight sold his ranch and buffaloes to Joseph Irving Staley of Wichita Falls, Tex. Mr. Staley made a fortune in oil, reached out into ranching, banking, aviation. Depression has pinched him. Ready cash is precious. The proposed buffalo hunt might realize $75,000. Besides, except in zoos and National Parks, kept buffaloes are an expensive nuisance...