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...When the Chamber and Senate sit together as the National Assembly at Versailles and vote for the President of France, who shall vote first is determined by opening the dictionary at random. Last spring the dictionary opened at L. Alphabetically no other L name in the National Assembly could beat Laval. Having cast the first vote Premier Laval saw his shaggy old mentor Aristide Briand heartbreakingly defeated for the Presidency, which fell to water-drinking, penny-pinching Paul Doumer...
Reprints. Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, his best-known story, is issued by Random House ($15). Printed in a sumptuous small folio on hand-made paper by San Francisco's Grabhorn Press, the book has silhouette decorations by Valenti Angelo...
...Random House also offers Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, printed by Chicago's Lakeside Press, illustrated by English Woodcutter Clare Leighton ($5). If you want Artist Leighton's signature, the limited edition...
...Joslin gravely declared: "All I can say at this time is that the message will not be a long one-and also that it will not be a short one." For weeks President Hoover has been carrying around a little 5? pad of paper in his pocket, jotting down random message ideas with a stubby pencil...
...armed revolt and was ousted by the second, became a presidential candidate after the third revolt. Peruvian voters chose by ballot between the Colonel and three other candidates, all civilians. While the vote was being counted gunmen in a speeding car riddled the residence of Candidate Sanchez Cerro with random bullets, killed nobody. Startled, but by no means unnerved, Colonel Sanchez Cerro received with a tight grin of satisfaction last week the news that he had been elected President of Peru by a majority...