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Waxing Roth, Sage sagaciously says, between bites of a Hershey Barr, keep your eye on the Cornell band, watch Harvard's forward passes, and read the scoreboard: 27-14. Dartmouth 21 - Princeton 14; Penn 14 - Yale...
...From Immigrant to Inventor, Louis Adamic's Laughing in the Jungle and My America-have been written by immigrants from the smallest countries: Holland, Serbia, Yugoslavia. With publication last week of Stoyan Christowe's autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara, a novel. Least pretentious of immigrant autobiographies, and one of the best-written, This Is My Country...
...Pepper won. That jarred loose the Wages-&-Hours Bill, started it toward pas sage. Then Janizary Ickes publicly plumped for New Dealer Hess against Old Dealer Martin for Governor of Oregon...
...good son," inherit it later. Thereupon Elisha and his second wife marched out of their small flat in Greenwich Village, reminded his relatives of the will left in 1901 by his great-uncle, Inventor-Founder Lewis Edson Waterman. None of the Waterman clan but Elisha had remembered that this sage greybeard bequeathed 60% of the fountain-pen stock to Frank Dan Waterman with the proviso that on his death it go to Elisha. Said Elisha last week as he became executive vice president and director: "It is quite clear that my great-uncle meant me to be his ultimate heir...
Last week Zane Grey published his 59th book. His total sales now reach about 13,000,000, and his most popular novel, Riders of the Purple Sage, adds up through its many reprintings to 750,000. As in most Zane Grey stories, much of the action in Raiders of Spanish Peaks depends on somebody overhearing somebody else-apparently in the old West there was an eavesdropper crouching behind every clump of sage brush. Also like most Zane Grey stories, the newest one begins with a bang. Hiding out after killing a man, tall, grey-eyed Laramie Nelson observes some gunmen...