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Miss Kelly (in real life, Mrs. William D. English of Beverley, Mass.) lifts this story above the run of woman's-magazine serials by her sincerity, her fondness for detail and her agile-if highly conditioned -intelligence. The husband's work is described, for example, with enthusiasm and at length. (The author thought her novel was about housing, not marriage; but this time the publishers were right.) She handles many emotional atmospheres and tensions with at least charcoal accuracy. Much firsthand observation has evidently gone into the book...
Over a year before the war Friedelind had enough of Nazi Germany, moved to Switzerland. At break of war, she appealed to music-loving Arthur Beverley Baxter, M.P., a Canadian-born British Tory, to get her admitted to England. She reached London just before France was smashed...
Then, having rescued Miss Wagner from Switzerland, the British arrested her last summer. In her luggage police found photographs of her and Hitler together and that clinched it. She was interned as an enemy alien. To her defense last week went eloquent Beverley Baxter...
These bold words came last week from no embittered follower of Neville Chamberlain, at outs with Winston Churchill's Government. Published in Canada's No. 1 magazine, Maclean's, they were the work of a Dominion-born newspaperman and politician, Beverley Baxter. A longtime aide of gnomelike little Lord Beaverbrook, 49-year-old Newsman Baxter is a member of Britain's Parliament, an unpaid efficiency expert for British factory workers. His job is to pep up the men's morale...
England's first serious soldier-poet was discovered last week by Beverley Nichols in the person of a sergeant of the Royal Artillery, a onetime Etonian named A. H. V. Longman. But his Old Age, published in a regimental magazine, will hardly encourage anybody to enlist. Its theme is the disillusion and precocious soul-hardening of Europe's young men. The poem...