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...again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length assignments, that stations were free to pick their own wave lengths, to wander at will through the frequencies. More than 200 stations jumped into the air in less than a year, mingled their random signals with the howls of heterodynes, raised bedlam that once more provoked a storm of pained and angry protest from listeners...
...FINE SUMMER WEATHER - Catherine Whitcomb - Random House ($2). Warm, summery novel covering a warm summer day in a New Hampshire resort, by the author of The Grown-Ups. Although her grown-ups are a little too neat to be plausible. Author Whitcomb's children are shrewd, engaging, unsentimental...
...rate to 27½%-but this was more astonishing to less heavily taxed foreigners than to Britons, for they have been paying 25% anyhow. Excited about 27½%, the New York Post put through a transatlantic telephone call, asked Fleet Street reporters to coax in a few Lodoners at random off the street to be questioned by New York. A van driver (truck driver), George Merrick, said: I think it is a very fair tax for the working...
...turned Catholic and founded, under the Dominican rule, the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer and headed the order until her death twelve years ago. Because Nathaniel Hawthorne's powers of observation were extremely acute, and because he filled his many notebooks with jottings about his children, his random writings about them make up one of the best pictures of childhood in U. S. literature-tender, unexpected, funny, but with the overtones of melancholy that run through all Hawthorne's writing...
SAVAGE SYMPHONY-Eva Lips-Random House ($3). Forthright account by the wife of Anthropologist Julius Lips (The Savage Hits Back) detailing the steps by which Nazis forced her husband from his post as director of the Museum of Ethnology in Cologne, then into exile-by searches, denunciations, cooked-up charges, a steadily intensifying atmosphere of fear...