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...Episcopalians in the Washington diocese (the District of Columbia and four adjoining Maryland counties) will find Dun an accessible, sociable man, full of common sense. He is well-bred, well-read. His chief relaxation: going over his household and seminary accounts. "When I get a little tired," he says, "I like to do the accounts, because they are so definite. Spiritual problems are seldom definite...
...From the Graphic, Gauvreau was hired by Hearst's fabulous Albert J. Kobler, publisher of the Mirror then founded to beat Captain Patterson's Daily News. Kob ler was "a well-read, intelligent man" who talked like Sam Goldwyn. ("This tabloid business is not all rag, tag and cocktail.") After making millions for Hearst, he died with less than...
...Olav machine-gunned from the air, incendiary bombs dropped on the red cross on a hospital roof. Much of the book is the story of the Norwegian Government's retreat to the north, its efforts to establish a front there. Except for the case of Quisling, "a very well-read man with a weakness for German philosophy," Hambro specifically denies that treason played an important part in Norway's fall. Such charges, says he, are real fifth calumny. He says all the Norwegians were brave...
...Brown's School Days" is the latest of Gene Towne's dramatizations of those well-read yarns that are an integral part of the education of every child who ever saw the inside of a public library. Graduates of prep school, "select" or otherwise, will see in this account of early nineteenth century Rugby the origins of those mysterious forms and rituals which give the prep schools today their distinctive aroma. Everyone will see a fine story, magnificently acted, effectively produced...
...that the senders obviously believe that people over here are hungry. And the senders are well-read people, deeply interested in European affairs...