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ALPHABET HICKS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehort ($2). Clever alibi-busting by wily ex-lawyer detective clears up murders in a plastics laboratory near New York. Hicks is a worthy addition to the Stout sleuth-stable (other occupants: Nero Wolfe, Tecumseh...
Herr Hitler's submarines, by their most recent torpedoings, have given the people of this country some tangible alibi for urging Congress to scrap the Neutrality Act. The sudden outcry of "out-rage" and "dastardly rattlesnake" must be reminiscent, to those who lived through it, of the last war and the Lusitania...
...worst for a No. 1 ranker since John Hope Doeg's memorable fadeout ten years ago. His game is more effective on grass than on clay, and he has been playing on clay. But his shots had been going badly and his confidence was shaken. He had no alibi last week. Parker, onetime protege of Coach Mercer Beasley, who comes up every year with a "remodeled" forehand, had an alibi. He likes clay better than turf; his mechanical style thrives on a higher bounce than he gets from grass...
...even worked, as various hours may be seen in different pictures. The architects at Robinson Hall believe that the mechanism got out of fix early in the 19th century, and was never repaired. If this is the case, it shows exceedingly poor spirit in the Maintenance Department. An old alibi in the archives speaks of removing the machinery to the church opposite, but the church was not built until 1833, three years after the earliest handless picture. Another flaw in the church excuse is that President Weber put a sundial on the building in 1810, so the clock must have...
...aircraft makers' best alibi was the machine-tool industry. It too began the year as a little industry, and though it more than doubled its 1939 sales to over $400,000,000, it remained so. When the planemakers began dumping real volume orders on the machine-tool market in February, Niles-Bement-Pond (one of the biggest of the lot) could call a mere $9,000,000 backlog the biggest in its history. Most toolmakers resisted defense-expansion pressure as much as they could, wanted instead to ration their customers. Automen, normally the biggest machine-tool customers, began...