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...appeared a U. S. translation of The Wanderer, by one Alain Fournier, an un-Gallic romantic masterpiece of the same order as W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions and Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age. Author Alain Fournier was killed in the War, and The Wanderer was his only book, but that his influence was still alive in France was shown last week, with the U. S. publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine...
...After the first series of races at New Smyrna (TIME, March 12), there began a round of entertaining at Palm Beach. John Sanford gave a party for the Italian drivers-Prince Carlo Maurizio Ruspoli, Count Theo Rossi de Montelera, Antonio Becchi. The French drivers- Publisher Jean Dupuy, Baron Alain de Rothschild, Marquis Gonzalo de la Gan-dara-had a tea given them by Mrs. Frederick E. Guest. Last week, the last heats of the races were postponed so that all the drivers could motor to Miami and watch Time Clock win the Florida Derby, and attend Harry L. Doherty...
...official's launch picked up Ellsworth, unhurt except for a cut lip. Tennes, in second place when Ellsworth spilled, heard his spark plugs sputtering on the next lap. He waved to Jean Dupuy who passed him on the last lap and won easily, with his teammate Baron Alain de Rothschild third...
Calvin Coolidge asking for a message, explaining his reply would cost nothing. His reply (full text): "Greetings." Alain Gerbault, oldtime French tennis star who three years ago completed a solitary trip around the world in a 35-foot sailboat, left Marseilles alone in his new sailboat Alain Gerbault. Friends said he was bound for Polynesia. The city of Nizhni-Novgorod, chief navigation centre on the Volga River. famed for its annual fair, was renamed Maxim Gorki in honor of "Soviet Russia's foremost man of letters." whose birthplace it is. Albert Whiting Fox. Washington attorney, sued Evalyn Walsh McLean...
When Sportsman Alain Gerbault (swimmer, poloist, tennis player, footballer, war ace) thought of going around the world,* he wanted to go alone, bought an English decked cutter, the Firecrest (39 feet, built in 1892), and put out of Havre across the Atlantic. That was in June, 1924. In The Fight of the Firecrest Sailor Gerbault gave the log of his 101-day voyage to Manhattan. In Quest of the Sun takes up the tale from there, tells how he completed his voyage round the earth...