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Considering mystery&151;&&151;adventure-story readers as a mass market, publishers have tried various methods to supply it: the omnibus&151;Dorothy Sayers, Carolyn Wells; the monthly release&151; Crime Club, Mystery League; uniform binding&151;the early French translations, Fantomas, the works of Wilkie Collins. Last week, Appleton-Century brought out a set of 15 thrillers characterized as The Tired Business Man's Library. The series includes the soothing romance inspired by centre-fire .45's, thrills inculcated by euphemistic detectives, and the shakes and chills of horror by night. Included are no omnibi, but individual...
Funeral services for Irvah Lester Winter '86, professor emeritus of Public Speaking, were held yesterday afternoon in the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church. Henry B. Washburn, dean of the Episcopal Theological School, conducted the services. At one time Dr. Winter was associated with the Theological School...
After standing idle for several years the pipe organ which was long used in the old Appleton Chapel with again peal forth this time in the auditorium of Cambridge's new Rindge Technical High School. Present Conant recently offered the organ to the Cambridge school committee, and yesterday it was accepted by the committee for use in the new building...
...BACKWARD GLANCE-Edith Wharton -Appleton-Century ($3). Few writers of any sex or class have been so handicapped as Edith Newbold Jones Wharton. Born a woman, a lady, and rich, she somehow managed to make herself into an almost first-rate author. Few better exhibitions of eating cake and still having it have ever been put on. Now an old lady (72), Author Wharton takes a backward glance over her traveled road, reports in carefully cultivated prose what she has seen along the way. Being a lady, she has forgotten some things and people. Her road, once friendly with many...
...Francis Appleton Wendell '37, of New York, N. Y., was named manager of the Freshman track and field team Saturday. This appointment came as the result of a competition which has been going on since the start of the Spring season. Wendell, who prepared at St. Mark's School, has been active in undergraduate, extra-curricular affairs; he is a member of the Red Book Business Board...