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...Kentucky Prize was made possible by a grant from the Jessie Preston will be given annually while the Iowa prize, from money of the Charles Eliott Perkins Scholarship Fund will be awarded in alternate years...
...long (380 pages), slow-moving tale, Honey in the Horn is distinguished for its easy humor, for its wealth of authentic local color wrapped around a slight and artificial plot. Clay Calvert, Oregon orphan, was herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with...
...parched lands on the east, dodging sheriffs, thinking they were after him even when they wanted someone else. His Oregon wanderings were so extensive that Honey in the Horn sometimes reads less like a novel than like a travel book. A six-fingered Indian boy, also one of Uncle Preston's wards, befriended Clay, hid with him. Then Clay fell in love with Luce, tall, fair-skinned daughter of a wandering horse-trader, rode away with the horse-trader's outfit...
...Normandie. Last fortnight President Fuchs handed over his stock to Vice President Charles Francis Adams* and resigned. It looked as if the Braves would soon have to enjoy a miracle or go out of business. Last week the miracle occurred. It was a prospective buyer whose name was George Preston Marshall...
...Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell's biography, wisely included apocryphal as well as factual details. Brady (Edward Arnold) is shown ordering a twelve-course dinner and meeting the youthful John L. Sullivan at a café; on the same night he is so overwhelmed by hearing...