Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book. What happens aboard a passenger ship when the passengers go ashore? On the vessels to which Engineer-Author McFee was articled, there would be good conversation and perhaps some light drinking in the officers' quarters. If the port were New York, a columnist (Don Marquis?) would come aboard, a fictionist (Christopher Morley?) and one or two more with a taste for books and life. A "doctor" (William McFee) would manipulate the discourse...
...centre of interest -save for one melodramatic reference to his dead Anne Rutledge. Among the "appealing" details is the token Lincoln had from Rose's small brother and which he concealed in his pocket during the speech — a stiff little fish. With rare sense, the author leaves the lost speech lost...
...CAREER-Edward D. Toland-Applcton ($1.50). It is diploma time at schools and colleges. To be or not to be a lawyer, doctor, minister, engineer, policeman, taxidermist-that is the question of the gown-wearers. College questionnaires usually reveal some 20 to 40% of near-graduates who are "undecided." Author Toland, instructor at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) and a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, rightly makes the point that, in an age of specializing, the hour for decision has struck before a boy leaves secondary school. In a few brief, provocative chapters that have more...
...undergraduates returning to College next year will be eligible to submit manuscripts, it was announced, and the winning author, or authors, will be automatically elected to the club, if he is not already a member...
Died. Mrs. Jane A. Hume, 24, wife of Author Cyril Hume (Wife of the Centaur, Cruel Fellowship); in Florence, Italy...