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Last week there strode into the flat white Department of Interior building in Washington a tall muscular man with a thick black mop of hair. His "good morning" to attendants who were just beginning to recognize him was quick, incisive. He was Dr. William John Cooper, Commissioner of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, succeeding tireless Dr. John James Tigert, now president of the University of Florida...
...international intrigue, later 20th century, Author Richard Keverne poaches on E. Phillips Oppenheim's preserves. Mystery runs so high, so thick, so fast, that it is guaranteed by a sealed ending?money back if you can resist breaking the seal of The Havering Plot (Harper...
...STRUGGLE: THE LIFE OF COMMANDER BYRD-Charles J. V. Murphy-Stokes ($2.50), most recent biography of the man. Commander Byrd tells practically nothing of his ancestors or his private life in SKYWARD-Putnam ($3.50). Skyward is his only published book. His Navigation of the Air is a thick pamphlet. He has in manuscript a book on philosophy...
Brother Pierre. A senior and most revered du Pont is Pierre Samuel du Pont?broad, thick chin; gleaming forehead; ready smile. He is a Wet. About six months ago he took leave of absence to join his protégeé, John J. Raskob, in working for the Democratic party. The rest of the du Fonts are Dry and Republican. A polite fissure among the du Fonts and within G. M. C. was apparent while the campaign was raging. Now that it is over, Pierre du Font's interest is in The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
There will be no cries of outrage on the part of undergraduates in the ears of Mr. Roberts not attempts to out-Herod Herod on the part of the men whose "semi-idiotic obtuseness" he lampoons. The "extra-thick coats of indifference", which he says are a "lot of hooey", will at least protect his victims from the shower of garbage loosed by his glorification of the exception in place of the rule. The only men who will even feel embarrassed are those whom he pictures at luncheon in a prominent undergraduate club--he suggests the "Soup Club"--under such...