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...physicist, his former professor. But when he locates him, the professor denies his identity, frames his onetime protege to get him out of the way. Chief of the shady facts about the professor is that his real name is MacMichael, that he lives in a Mojave Desert hideout called Barstow...
Wolfe's first cinema assignment is to discover who, by means of a gun concealed in a golf club, with a trigger released by impact with the ball, killed jolly old Professor Barstow and why. By the time he succeeds, the picture has unraveled the grim and interwoven biographies of an irascible golf professional, an Argentine olive oil dealer, a lady idol worshipper and a young man with an Oedipus complex. It has also indicated that its hero, less dashing than Philo Vance and less whimsical than Charlie Chan, but more mercenary than either, will be a highly acceptable...
John Ashmead, Jr., of Windsor, Conn., Ezra B. Barstow, Jr., of Brookline, Josiah W. Bennett, of Cambridge, Richard E. Bennink, of Cambridge, Everett R. Coburn, Jr., of Suncock, N. H., Graham Cummin, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., Stephen Van N. Powelson, of Syracuse, N. Y., Charles L. Randol, of Baltimore, Md., William W. Shirk, of Muncie, Ind., Ralph L. Smith, of Braintree, Floyd W. Tomkins, Jr., of Washington, Conn., and Kenneth Ward-Smith, of Garden City...
...Chan in London." In murder mysteries the important feature is the story and this time it is only a fair one, suffering from a superabundance of trite tricks of the trade such as too-obvious attempts to make everybody seem to be the criminal. Having just finished the famous (?) Barstow case the philosophic Mr. Chan is preparing to return to China and the numerous little Chans when he receives an impassioned plea from Pamela Gray to come to the aid of her brother who is to be hung in three days for a murder which he did not commit. Chan...
Other honorary degrees were received from President Davis by William Hovgaard, professor of Naval Design and Construction at M. I. T.; William Barstow, president of the Edison Pioneers; William Duane Ennis, professor of Economics of Engineering at Stevens, and Harry R. Westcott, consulting engineer...