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JOURNEY INTO FEAR-Eric Ambler -Knopf ($2). Wartime attempt of a Britisher, traveling in naval ordnance, to get home from Turkey. His gradual realization that he must be murdered, Turkish gestures of protection, changing plans, sudden death on his ship-this is ordinary intrigue material made into a knockout story...
...COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS-Eric Ambler -Knopf ($2). An English detectifiction writer sets out to trace the career of a shady Greek fig-packer whose stabbed body he saw in a Turkish morgue. Author Ambler, international traveler, scripter for Alexander Korda, artfully interweaves spidery intrigue and murder mystery...
From his farm near Ambler, Pa., Henry Lee Willet drives every day into West Philadelphia where he has a big, three-story studio and about 20 craftsmen working full-time on jobs which at the moment include windows for Minneapolis, St. Louis and Louisville. He pays apprentices $12 a week, experienced artists as much as $85, mechanics according to the union scale, which is $1 per hr. in Philadelphia. Like Lawrence Saint, he is a Presbyterian elder, recently persuaded the Presbytery of Philadelphia North to establish a committee of social action. He and Saint are good friends but he thinks...
...Widener guests were not acquainted with their hosts, the Record related how Mr. Gravell talked to each & every one of his employes at the main plant when he gave them checks to square their debts. All no American Chemical Paint Co. workers (76 at Ambler, 34 in other branch plants)-whether they had debts or not-shared in the bonus handout...
Married. Dorothy Vare, daughter of the late Pennsylvania State Senator Edwin H. Vare, niece of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare; and Thomas Read Hulme, son of Vice President Thomas Wilkins Hulme of the Pennsylvania Railroad; at Ambler, Pa. Giver-away: Edwin H. Vare Jr. who married Golfer Glenna Collett (TIME, July...