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...gang of Rumanians. Samuel Insull had been hauled to the top of a cliff in a basket to take refuge with the monks of Mount Athos. Finally from the harbor master of Piraeus, Athens' port seven miles away, came a report that a rusty foul-smelling little tramp steamer known as the Maiotis had cleared for parts unknown with Samuel Insull as its only passenger. Further investigation showed that Samuel Insull had dyed his hair and mustache black, put on nobby Athenian clothes and walked out of his hotel unnoticed. Also he had paid $10.000 to charter the steamer...
...blocks to reach the welcoming doors of Widener. This obstacle seemingly miner, but in times of haste, or low temperatures, sufficiently annoying remains in the path to knowledge in order that the Yard may be protected from marauders and that Freshmen in Wigglesworth Halls may sleep undisturbed by the tramp of feet in the archways beneath. The purpose of keeping the gate directly behind the library firmly chained and bolted is harder to fathom. It is possible that it is one of the things that is because it has always been. The ritual of the gab has always been...
...blind one of them, she went down to the seashore "and ventured inta matrimony for two years," Except for a few brief experiences as a scenario writer, Miss Gore has remained in that seashore village--the scene of her novel--and "has done nothing but write, read, swim and tramp the hills for six years...
Featured in the January Scribners is the first of four installments of "Tender is the Night," a Riviera romance by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald is one of the many young men who were, in his time, driven to self expression as an alternative to going abroad in a tramp steamer; he is one of the few of them who has learned the mechanics of writing. Everything that comes from his pen has the same brittle competence. One sees the commas, the exclamations, the paragraphs, falling inexorably into place, and the people, the situations, the emotions, falling with them...
...Tramp, tramp in field boots and brown shirts, Deputies of the new Reichstag chosen in Germany's "Ja Election" (TIME, Nov. 20) marched into Berlin's Kroll Opera House last week, poured in brown streams down the aisles and oozed into their seats. Almost the only ununiformed Deputy was Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, a Papal Chamberlain and Nazi-dom's valued link with Rome. His immaculate cutaway made a black plum in the brown Nazi pudding. For the first time since the War no Deputy was a Jew, a Communist, a Socialist, a woman...