Word: boarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MURDER RENTS A ROOM - Sara Elizabeth Mason- Crime Club ($2). A Yankee boarder at a down-at-heel Alabama plantation helps a slow but sure Southern sheriff unriddle two murders that disrupt the peace of a poor, proud family. Crime, romance, authentic Southern atmosphere and rule-of-thumb detecting are satisfac torily mixed...
...story concerns a fabled house in London, from its building by a British admiral in 1804 until its destruction by a Nazi bomb. Among its starry occupants are Charles Laughton (a tipsy butler), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (a plumber), Claude Rains (a rich villain), Roland Young (a boarder), Merle Oberon (a desk clerk), Anna Neagle (a grownup foundling). Good scene: Brian Aherne (a coal heaver) making love to Ida Lupino (a scullery maid...
...star boarder at Washington's famed Walter Reed Hospital, a tall, spare, silvered man with a back straight as a poplar, wrote to the President...
...PERENNIAL BOARDER - Phoebe Atwood Taylor - Norton ($2). Olive Beadle, shot in Ye Olde Whale caravansary on Cape Cod, gives Asey Mayo a rare bit of homespun detecting to do. Asey's grammar gets worse as his sleuthing gets better...
Awaited Action. Last week President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's friend and boarder, Harry L. Hopkins, left London for the U. S. after four weeks of the closest intellectual intimacy with British Government leaders. He had even attended meetings of the inner War Cabinet. It was certain that he would tell the President all he had learned about British peace aims. It was all but certain that Franklin Roosevelt would then tell the U. S. as much as he thought it ought to know. That would probably be enough to convince most of the U. S. that Britain was fighting...