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...health failed, but when Mr. Sears called a doctor, Grouard refused to be examined. Last February. Mr. Sears rented a room for his servant in a boarding house nearby sent Grouard there for "a good rest " Grouard never left the room. Last week when Landlady Theresa Harr found her boarder unconscious, she called two doctors: they told her that Alfred Grouard was: 1) dying. 2) a woman. Police identified her as one Lucy Hall, but no one knew what had become of the $16,000 Sears had paid her in 14 years...
...CLIMBS-C. A. Tarrant- Lippincott ($2). A mousy little clerk accidentally becomes a gentlemanly crook by night, worries his old landlady, a woman boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...
Ford is the star boarder at Columbia. Two full evening hours a week go to the motor company, which is currently paying for time at the rate of some $1,800,000 a year. This season the Ford Symphony Orchestra will grind out time-honored classics on Sunday nights under such conductors as Victor Kolar, Eugene Ormandy, Alexander Smallens, Fritz Reiner. Fred Waring's band and entertainers will go after the young folks in half-hour periods, one on N. B. C., one on C. b. S., at other times in the week. For such talents Henry Ford will...
...counted her pennies, cultivated her tongue, studied shorthand and typing, and kept her feet from straying. Her peers thought her strangely proud, for "common things like holding hands with strange young men at the cinema were not for her." She struck up a culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech than she, but she guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established...
...first elephant to become a permanent resident of the state was also imported by The Register and Tribune. She is now the star boarder at the Iowa State Fair grounds...