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...right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise an eyebrow at the very first slice: "In every English-speaking country Dickens is still the great popular writer." André ' whole case for Dickens is an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps Dickens had a streak of Pecksniff in his character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn't?" He is sorry for Mrs. Dickens, believes that "to be a novelist's wife is truly dreadful," but thinks much should be left unsaid on both sides. As to Dickens' solacing himself with an actress, he thinks that...
...Silver Streak" is all about the triumph of stream-lining in railroad trains. There are some mildly thrilling shots of the Zephyr speeding through mountain passes and avoiding collisions by the narrowest of margins. This is about as fresh as yesterday's newspaper and equally as amusing...
...pupils, had they cared one way or the other, would have had to look twice to be sure that their new principal was not white. One of Harlem's handsomest women, tall, scholarly Gertrude Ayer has a creamy complexion, set off by kinkless grey hair with a streak of black running straight back from the forehead...
...American Division, with no team as weak as the Eagles, the Detroit Red Wings were last week slipping into last place, while the New York Rangers, by means of their extraordinary winning streak, were climbing into third. A notch above the Rangers were the boisterous Boston Bruins, built around sandy-haired Eddie Shore. Leading the division was the team which won the Stanley Cup last year and which most experts favor to retain it this year, the Chicago Black Hawks...
...Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today the Mercedes-Benz is in the barn and Mr. Grubb drives a Plymouth. Horseman, clubman, he is one of Wall Street's best-dressed brokers...