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CHARLES ENEMARK Rock Island...
...Life. Never high, Russia's living standards today touch rock bottom. Hunger and overwork are bad enough. But the Russian has also to cope with shortages of nearly every item of daily use, from frying pans to buttons and pencils...
...Rock. Soon after their marriage Nancy and Freddy went to Mexico City. Nancy came down with typhoid and trench mouth. Her parents flew to her side. Freddy came every day to the hospital, twice gave blood for a transfusion...
Said the London Times last fortnight in its Literary Supplement: "A book so real, austere, singular, rugged and wild as the world it depicts, as though hewn from the basalt rock, such monumental sculpture as Travels in Arabia Deserta cannot be forever ignored. Yet it needed a world war to awaken the English people to their possession of a treasure which may stand an age and beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much...
Died. Abraham Merritt, 59, editor Hearst's American Weekly; of a heart ailment ; in Indian Rock Beach, Fla. An associate editor of the Weekly since 1912, Scientifictioneer Merritt became editor in 1937; since then the Sunday supplement's circulation has grown from 6,000,000 to almost 8,000,000. On the side he was a cold-sweat novelist (Seven Footprints to Satan) and a garden cultivator of mandrake, monkshood and other varieties of backyard deliriants...