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GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWKS- Robinson Jeffers-Random House...
...indicted for publishing indecent matter, caused her and her Co-Editor Jane Heap to be fined $50. Thirty thousand copies of Ulysses have been sold in France, mostly to U. S. tourists to snuggle home. Immediate results of last week's decision were two. Publisher Cerf's Random House announced a forthcoming unabridged edition of Ulysses ($3.50) for general sale. In Paris, where he was waiting for another operation on his right eye, Author Joyce said he was "pleased with the judgment," hoped to get some much needed cash out of the U. S. edition...
President Roosevelt announced his recognition of the Soviet Union in the dead of a Russian night. The great news spread chiefly by word of mouth. Correspondents, unable to get Josef Stalin or any other Soviet bigwig to say anything, scurried around Moscow buttonholing Russians at random on the streets, reported that most of them beamingly commented "Ochen horosho!" ("Very fine!"). In the big Moscow hotels, the National and the Metropole, tourists who were dancing to the Russian idea of U. S. jazz when the news came in cried "Whoopee!", ordered more vodka and Soviet champagne...
Kentucky's Lieutenant-Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler famed for, his random generosity in creating 644 Kentucky colonels in 25 days as acting Governor, went on a business trip to Jacksonville, Fla. While there he hoped to locate the grave of his mother. When he was a moppet of four in Corydon, Ky. his mother had run away from her husband and two children, married a man in Evansville, Ind. named Fortune. She went to Florida and after Fortune's death married a man named Chamberlin. At the time of his brother's death by a fall...
...starting a Negro daily in Harlem has always been the popularity of Manhattan's two morning tabloids, News and Mirror. Both papers used to print, inconspicuously inked in at the bottom of cartoons on the sport pages, a series of numerals which mystified white readers. They were random suggestions for hunch players in Harlem's famed gambling game of "numbers...