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...November two of the most photographed beauties of Britain, Lady Louis Mountbatten and the Marchioness of Milford Haven, great & good friends of Edward of Wales, descended upon the Kingdom of Irak in search of desert thrills. White-chinned King Feisal gave a dinner in their honor, whereupon the noble ladies announced that they were going out into the Persian desert "with only the clothes we stand in and one change as well as a light tent and two sleeping bags." Added the Marchioness...
...FOOTSTEPS-John M. O'Connor-Cheshire House ($2). An ill-natured family-greedy-hateful-wait on an icebound island for one member to die. Five men are murdered; and the police never come. THE MURDER OF CAROLINE BUNDY- Alice Campbell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). An errant swindler renews the search for the Holy Grail, with murder by the way. THOSE SEVEN ALIBIS-Charles G. Booth -Morrow ($2). The evil smile of a marble face changes a curio shop to a dueling ground; seven suspects for a slayer...
Long a friend of Governor Roosevelt, he is already a member of the committee organizing the proposed World Economic Conference. If the next President decides to scramble debts, disarmament and world trade all up in that parley he would have a long search for a Secretary of State so well trained by experience in the practicalities of such problems as Norman Davis. But perhaps Mr. Roosevelt will find him as Mr. Hoover has, even more useful without portfolio...
...should search for the human ill which has manifested itself most widely during all times and among all peoples, there can be but little doubt that headache would attain this unenviable distinction," wrote Columbia University's Professor Henry Alsop Riley last week.* Therewith he presented a 116-page summary of what is known about "the most baffling and dramatic form of pain in the head"- migraine. Professor Riley and a half-dozen other able investigators† are trying to solve the problem, with the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation paying the expenses of the study. Professor Ludwig Kast...
...name: "Too many [Prime Ministers] have appeared to lose the faculty of decision. That seems to be one of the faculties that wear out soonest. To decide makes a considerable strain on the nervous force and the strain increases with apprehended unpopularity of the decision. Then ensues a search for some means to avoid effort. Postponement in its various forms is welcomed. Some so-called compromise is adopted which leaves all difficulties unsolved. Or a royal commission is appointed. Or the state of business in the House of Commons is declared to make action impossible. Or the matter is simply...