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...GREATEST PAGES OF CHARLES DICKENS?Stephen Leacock?Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Chronological anthology arranged by an avid Dickensian for other Dickensians...
...manner novel enough to make it attractive to the casual playgoer. In the familiar situation of a family with a tradition whose son falls for the peroxide rinse adventuress, we have a large assortment of old comic standbys, prominent among whom is the crusader for unrepressed sex, the avid reader of Havelock Ellis...
...have been an avid reader of TIME and FORTUNE from their beginnings but if you intend to sell out to Rand and his bunch of propagandists as exemplified in your last Friday evening's broadcast you can count...
...entire family of four people. Each has been put to death by different means and the situation presents a fine opportunity for the brain of Fleming Stone, long established master detective employed by Miss Wells to see that justice is done to the criminals and to the avid readers of her prolific creations...
...peas, potatoes, salad, ice cream with strawberries and coffee." The spell of Africa for Frederick Trubee Davison is of far longer standing than his short tenure of the museums presidency. It goes back 20 of his 37 years to the time his rich father, the late Henry Pomeroy Davison, avid angler and huntsman, returned from an African shooting trip with tales that made the boy's eyes pop. Some day, he vowed, he would go there too. The idea lay dormant but alive in his mind all the while he drove an ambulance in France in 1915, learned...