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Sirs: I am very much interested in your comment (TIME, July25) on Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth, particularly where you state that he has translated his latest work into strong, thick-muscled English. I feel perhaps you would like to know something regarding this translation...
...August "everyone goes to Scotland," and last week "everyone" included a more than usually thick sprinkling of potent Americans: John Pierpont Morgan, Alanson Bigelow Houghton, James Watson Gerard, Charles W. Ogden, Henry C. Phipps, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Walter Teagle, Herbert L. Pratt, Stephen Metcalf and many another...
...feared and respected Near Eastern statesman. As he talked, the slender, expressive hands of Tewfik Rushdi Bey seemed to articulate his meaning almost more effectively than his precise, somewhat mincing words. As always, the eyes of the Turkish Foreign Minister seemed abnormally large and penetrating by reason of the thick, magnifying lenses of his glasses...
CIRCUS PARADE?Jim Tully?A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Before he became a literary man, Jim Tully was, as everyone knows, a he-man who got slapped hard by life. His thick red hair was badly tousled in roundhouses, barrooms, boxcars and worse. Hanging around a small-time circus was comparatively idyllic. All he had to do was help drive the tentstakes, feed the animals, chase vermin, and fool or fight the "rube" public in quiet sections of the South. He had much time to develop his "understanding" of the rudimentary humanities and brutalities of hand-to-mouth people and evolve...
...principals, one was a 194½-pound man, aged 32, of Irish descent?Jack Dempsey. Thick-lipped, splay-nosed, laconic, he was to demonstrate whether or not he could again transform himself into a smashing feline whirlwind in the boxing ring as he could from 1919 to 1926 when he was world's champion heavyweight...