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...daughter thirty-five years after the expedition, that one day the exploits of Arnold and his men would be the background of one of the greatest of American historical novels--Keneth Roberts' "Arundel". In "Arundel", Arnold's march to Quebec forms the principle episode of a book alight with the fire and energy of the Revolutionary period, an episode which created such interest in the expedition itself, apart from any fictitious coloring, that Roberts decided to arrange the original diaries and letters of the men who participated in the expedition and present them to the public in order that...
...ever. Said F. Raymond Daniell of the Times: "A hero with his tongue in his cheek, blarney on his lips and the twinkle of the devil in his eyes." Said William D. O'Brien of the World-Telegram: ". . . A sight of Corrigan himself, with the lean peaked face alight with the puckish smile, the same captivating gift coming, it seemed sure, from the Little Folk of the very land he startled." Said Edwin C. Hill of the Journal and American: "The Corrigan, as cocky a bantam as ever was, opened his eyes in a big, soft...
DEATH FROM A TOP HAT - Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Two murders in locked rooms in one day; both victims and all suspects expert magicians; the solution by an expert, retired conjurer. Ingenious plot, amiable spoofing of detective-story formulas, alight story weakened by overlong discussions of parlor tricks...
Stenthing Providence and Cambridge police wound up their two-months' hunt for the snatcher of valuable Peabody Museum masterpieces by pouncing on alight, 25-year old Theodore Oleson in the Rhode Island capital yesterday...
This week on Jan. 7 events were to proceed as follows at The; Hague: The happy pair drive out in the State Coach (presented to Queen Wilhelmina at the time of her marriage in 1901) and alight at the Town Hall with its onion-topped steeple, to have their civil marriage performed. Oranges hang decoratively from Hague trees in honor of the Royal House of Orange-Nassau and nips of gin are downed by the sturdy Dutch in the frosty air. The royal coach rolls on to the Great Church of Saint James, and the Rev. Dr. Welter, former court...