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...Reader Knowlton may now hear of a fourth definition of barratry, given in the Webster International and Oxford dictionaries: The "practice of exciting and encouraging or maintaining lawsuits or quarrels; persistent excitement of litigation...
...French author is looking for a thoroughly sombre background he is apt to pick that part of France-better known as the provinces-which is not Paris. Claude starts off with as much gloomy naturalism as the drabbest of them, and for the first 50 pages a normally cheerful reader may turn up his coat collar, wish it would stop raining. But if he perseveres beyond this chilling introduction he will soon feel such warming rays as will make his coat unnecessary. By book's end he will have been acclimatized to the varied weather of a whole human...
...thanks to Yazoo's President Downs and Reader Harris for an explanation of the service rendered Mississippi Valley citizens by the railroad's 88 locomotives, 61 passenger cars, 1,195 freight cars and 3 cabooses...
...pictures to which Reader Netedu refers were taken at Life Camps-the 51-year-old charitable enterprise founded by the comic weekly Life, taken over and carried on by TIME Inc. when it acquired the name LIFE for its new picture magazine. Under the direction of Lloyd Burgess Sharp are two boys' camps, at Pottersville, N. J. and Matamoras, Pa.; one girls' camp at Branchville, Conn. Life Camps have been supported by nationwide private contributions. This year the entire overhead is being paid by TIME Inc., thus ensuring that every contributed dollar will go direct to the child...
...newspaper's managing editor, Louis Ruppel, believes that "Medicine has lots of mystery, lots of intrigue, lots of sock. That's what the public wants." Two years ago he roused considerable reader interest and increased his circulation by a series called "Seven Days in the Kankakee State Hospital." The diligent reporter who gathered that material, Frank Smith, 34, had spent two-and-a-half months this summer researching around the Mayo Clinic for the new series to which Dr. Will...