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...Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius (Olga Katzin Miller) has written a dedication in verse ("Hedunit") to the hawk-nosed man in the deerstalker cap who "started a mania for singular cases, started a craving few addicts restrain, started a saga of amateur aces, whimsical, taciturn, dashing, urbane . . ." Holmes Addict Christopher Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn...
Take It or Leave It. In Denver, Contest Addict Allene Melrose wondered what to do with the prize allowing her a 10% discount at a local mortuary...
Died. Wilfred Meynell, 95, poet, essayist, discoverer of drug-addict Poet Francis Thompson; in Pulborough, England. With his poet-wife, the late Alice Meynell, he founded and for twelve years edited the literary review Merry England. In 1888, he received some verses written on blue sugar-bag paper by the starving Thompson, printed the contributions, rescued and cared for the poet for 19 years...
...Four Faces West" is one of those soft, goreless westerns, and it pleases neither the addict nor the casual moviegoer. What it lacks mainly is an original gimmick to replace the familiar action. Without this the movie is a formless as a jellyfish and generates about the same interest. Joel McCrea portrays a sincere bank-robber who hoists 2,000 realm of New Mexican sandstone wishing to hell he hadn't taken the dough. He falls in love with a nice-looking girl, does a few good deeds, said turns himself in before things...
...Jobbing. Robinson's adolescent dream was to go to college, but his father spiked that because the oldest Robinson boy, Dean, had become a morphine addict after getting his M.D.; if that was the fruit of college learning, Edwin might better stay at home. Lonely and miserable, young Robinson lolled around the town, doing odd jobs and writing verses...