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Found shot dead in a Detroit park was Howard Carter Dickinson, 52, nephew of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's wife. Attorney Dickinson had gone from New York to Detroit to investigate a young woman's claim against the $40,000,000 Yawkey (lumber) estate. After four days' search, Detroit police produced William Schweitzer, underworldling, and three dance-hall girls who told of having been with Lawyer Dickinson on a two-day drinking party culminating in a hold-up and the shooting...
...dramatics wanted to commit a perfect crime, and did. He constructed the myth of his twin brother, John, hermit and religious fanatic, often posed as John to get the story believed. Then he stole $97,000, put on the character and clothing of fictitious John, waited for the search to die down. For 18 months he lived and prayed and slept as John, found himself becoming John. In desperation he tried to throw off his disguise, found that his appearance had changed. He confessed, was laughed at as a madman whose brother's sins had preyed on his mind...
...time between the ages of four and ten in "thought upon God, salvation and the spiritual experience of men." Some of his precocious revelations made his father & mother conclude that angels were speaking through him, decide to put a stop to "these celestial excursions." But at 57 his anatomical search for man's soul turned Swedenborg once more to supernatural intercourse. This time he had no doubt that the angels and spirits were real. They scattered sweet or disagreeable odors on his body, produced pain, heat, cold. One night some evil spirits got into his scalp, fled at dawn...
...James Roosevelt, 80, mother of the President, resigned her honorary vice-presidency of the Motion Picture Re-search Council. Her reason: "I'm much too busy and too old to do anything...
Indeed, "One Light Burning" casts a spell of unreality over its willing reader. Paradoxically enough the spell is made more potent by realistic descriptions of the people and the surroundings. The account of Andrew's expedition wandering in the frozen wastes of Russia in search of a brilliant philosopher, who at times seems to become an illusion, a product of fevered imaginations, and the story of Sandy's slow degeneracy are perhaps unsurpassed by any realistic novelist. But it is the motivation of the characters which makes this novel outstanding...