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Main characters of What People Said are drawn from two of Athena's leading families. Idealistic Charles Aldington Carrough is a famed country editor and Progressive. His closest friend is persuasive, charming Banker Isaac Norssex. Their sons share the family friendship. Lee Norssex goes into his father's bank. Junior Carrough, a Rhodes Scholar, goes to work on his father's newspaper, marries a shrewd New York newspaper woman, is elected to the State legislature. Occasionally he backs some bond legislation or kills a news story at Lee's suggestion...
...CRYSTAL WORLD-Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($1.75). An author who always manages to seem honester than the words he writes, Novelist Aldington (Death of A Hero, All Men Are Enemies, et al.) here plies his trade-secret with a heavy hand. Twenty-one oozy love lyrics, written in the first person, are followed by a commentary in which he describes the crystal sources of the ooze. For debutantes, deadly poison...
Among the books, many given by Paul J. Sachs, '00, Syndic of the University Press, is a book of letters from T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. Others by Kipling, Richard Aldington, and Albrecht Durer, sixteenth century engraver, make up the exhibit...
VERY HEAVEN - Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Portrait of a savagely embittered young man whose family's bankruptcy, forcing him to leave college, sets him to discovering the world's bankruptcy generally, England's particularly. Intent on vigorous effect, Author Aldington's hand now and then unfortunately goes straight through the canvas...
...collection are Miss Lowell's notebooks, manuscripts, rare examples of her early work, and her vast correspondence with literary figures in America and England, including Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Richard Aldington, Vachel Lindsay, Barrett Wendell, Harriet Monroe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eleanora Duse, John Drinkwater, Conrad Alken, and Ezra Pound...