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...Author. Writing funny stories is not all sherry and biscuits to Pelham ("Plum") Grenville Wodehouse, 51. He started it as a release from the tedium of a high stool in the Bank of England where his father's sudden retirement landed him instead of in Oxford. His scribbling soon persuaded the head clerk ("dark...
President Roosevelt had a mild stomach ache last week when the stockmarket took its first bad tumble of the New Deal. His ailment was not due to the sudden shriveling of security values but to an excess of cherries and bottled "pop" which he had consumed during a visit to Maryland's Eastern Shore. His indisposition started crazy rumors around brokers' offices that he was gravely ill, that he had suffered a stroke of paralysis, that he was already dead and laid out (see p. 45). "Look at me!" he grinned to newsmen when he returned...
Sensuous Tony's first experiment in love-making was with his more mature cousin Evelyn. In Paris, at 18, he thought he was in love with Margaret, a proper young hypocrite whom he kissed in the woods beyond St. Cloud. His mother's sudden death in a carriage accident put an end to that affair for a while. Then he went to Italy, where his tourist impressions were noted with great care, and finally to the Mediterranean island of Aeaea, "twelve hours from Naples," which is mythical. Mythical or not, there he met Katharina, "Katha" for short...
...this was as distressing to Edwin Gould as the unanimity with which historians described his father as the greatest and most wicked pirate of the buccaneering age in U. S. industry. But he modestly went his wray, made and gave away his modest millions, died without ostentation, of a sudden heart attack...
Within the tiers which stretched away into darkness there was sudden scurry, footsteps and the flare of a match. A great figure huddled in a great coat escaped into the shadow. Another match flared, a shaded flashlight swept the long aisles, and in the half-light a face distorted with fear of discovery shot out of the darkness like some hideous appartion in a nightmare. Suddenly there was a dead silence, and then a muttered "ah." Back in the musty corridors there was a swishing sound and slowly a black object appeared. The figure walked back and forth dragging heavy...