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Jerry Day (Gary Cooper) and his lady love (Carole Lombard) have for three years been tripping a light trail about the globe living a happy, though rather vacuous existence and gaining their daily champagne by virtue of Jerry's ability to sell hypothetical gold mines and other sleight of hand. Just when their accumulated hangovers and debts begin to overwhelm them Jerry receives a letter from his brother-in-law asking him for his brother-in-law's love for the child, the guardianship of Jerry's child by a former marriage. Thinking to profit by Jerry returns to America...
Only the tail end of the Jeans presidential discourse was concerned with science in industry. His topic was "The New World-Picture of Modern Physics"?a picture he has displayed to some 300,000 readers in thin, lucid books. Sir James again led his hearers over the trail from the comfortable Victorian universe of jelly-like ethers, billiard-ball particles, gears and levers to the disconcerting, fantastic universe built by Rutherford, Planck. Bohr, Einstein. Heisenberg. Schrodinger, Dirac and others where the electron dances beyond space and time in a field of mathematical formulae...
...literary as well as the geographical sense there are still wide open spaces in the U. S. Such trail-blazing authors as James Fenimore Cooper. Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte have yet to be crowded out of their frontier freeholds, may still be said to have squatters' rights. But last week Author Grace Zaring Stone trespassed on Cooper's hunting-ground, and if she makes many more such successful expeditions, Cooper's title to the land will be considerably shaken. The Cold Journey may not prove as popular as The Last of the Mohicans (it will never...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, most famed Democratic liberal until the New Deal shoved back the liberal frontier and moved out on the Santa Fe trail of experiment...
...Biography." His scheme has been to take readers along with him in his "quest" for the man behind the legend while he unearths old letters, lost manuscripts, people who knew Corvo. The book is the story of a personality. It is also the story of the story. The trail begins in 1925 when Symons first hears of his man through reading Hadrian the Seventh, Corvo's tale of a young English Catholic who becomes Pope. Struck by its power and originality, he makes inquiries about the author, hears many a contradictory yarn, grows curious, turns literary detective...