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...awarded to a hardy amateur for heroics during the Allegheny floods in Pennsylvania; for 1937 for similar feats during the Ohio River floods; for 1938 to a young man who kept up communications on Rhode Island's Xarragansett shore, while hurricane and tidal wave ripped past. In 1939 nobody...
...what passed in her stream of consciousness beside the water no one else knew. But when her husband, following her footprints across the fields, rushed up in panic, only her stick was lying on the bank. While searchers dragged the Ouse, but found no body (the river is tidal at that point), Leonard Woolf told the press: "Mrs. Woolf is presumed to be dead." He did not tell what was in her last note...
...vernal equinox, whether it wants to or not, spring comes to the District of Columbia. On that day, each year, shivering photographers, muffled to the cheekbones, escort a beauteous damsel to the Tidal Basin and tell her to go climb a tree. Usually the Cherry Blossom Queen, posing as regally as possible while sitting on a knobby tree branch, gets runs in her stockings, barked knuckles and a ruffled temper...
...number is legion and their literary tempers are short) may hail You Can't Go Home Again as the culminating Wolfe masterpiece. To others it may seem like rereading The Web and the Rock. There is the same mass and specific gravity of wordage. There is the same tidal flux and reflux of language. There is Wolfe's constant continental sense of the U. S., which sometimes turns into a Whitmanic bill of particulars. There are the same major characters, all from life, and the same unreality surrounding them. There are the same successes with minor characters...
From this lush new export market (where prices are $10 to $21.40 a ton over the domestic level) U. S. pulp makers are skimming the cream. But they do not consider it permanent. A break in the British blockade would release a tidal wave of low-cost Scandinavian pulp, force prices far below anything U. S. mills could meet. Already pulpmen have had reason to be leery of the Latin-American market. Last spring, after Norway's collapse, they were hounded by Latin-American purchasing agents. Suddenly the agents vanished. Nazi salesmen had promised them low-priced pulp deliveries...