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...sales mounted in England the book aroused comment and gossip unusual even for the best bestsellers. Reason: it is a literary mystery. For Henry Handel Richardson is but the nom de plume of an authoress who conceals her real name. She is a robust, middle-aged London woman, long and strong of face, wife of an able scientist. Born in Australia, trained in Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition...
...campaigner is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. His great campaign (1924-25) as Director of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety was cut short when politicians decided that his drying-up tactics were somewhat too robust. Last week, as Commander of the Quantico (Va.) Marine base, he launched another campaign when he discovered one of his non-commissioned officers tending bar for a Quantico village bootlegger. He prohibited his enlisted men from going to the village. Frantic merchants, losing lucrative soldier trade, appealed to the General. He retorted dourly that he would parade his men back to town...
Hard has been the lot of Britain's Conscientious Objectors for the past eleven years. Sneeringly referred to as "Conchies" by robust Britons who had no objections to the War, they have been barred from civil service positions. "Conchies" already employed by the government have been denied promotion...
Ringside Comment. Soon it appeared that British Public opinion was indeed breaking party lines, surging to support Philip Snowden. "His robust patriotism pleases us as much as it surprises us," cried the conservative Morning Post, normally a ruthless flayer of all Laboriteism. "We are delighted that there is no nonsense about internationalism in the line that he has taken, and that he stands firmly upon the British interest...
NowaDays. When two girls fancy a man, everyone is apt to be perturbed, and someone, according to Playwright Arthur F. Brash, is likely to get killed. Barbara Herford and Paula Newhall bet fifty dollars over Boyd Butler, a robust footballer who was also greatly interested in such erudite matters as coin collections...