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...fire had broken out while the fire department of a new community existed only as a paper project. The measures advocated by the President were the means most urgently needed. If the dollar can be used ... to improve the lot of the citizens of Greece and Turkey then the boon will be a domestic blessing...
...blonde screamed: "Let me out . . . let me out!" "You shut your trap," said Percy Boon. The car sped over London's lonely, foggy Wimbledon Common, and Police Constable Lamb, leaping over the curb to safety, glimpsed the struggling couple in the front seat. A few hours later, detectives in raincoats were standing over the blonde's dead body-while Percy, hatless, bloody, hysterical, ran desperately for shelter in the myriad streets of London...
...days of Charles Dickens and his disciple George Gissing have tried to do for London what numerous U.S. writers have done for New York. As a result, Dulcimer Street is likely to be an eye opener for U.S. readers. Apart from the crime he commits, Author Collins' Percy Boon is a typical young Londoner of 1939-as dedicated to intricate machinery and peroxide beauty as Americans are supposed to be. Percy's natural habitats are not the fast-disappearing pubs and winding streets of old London, but new London's numerous glittering picture palaces, dance halls, road...
Last week Ruark reminded his readers that it was an even year since the Navy "granted me its most priceless boon, that final handshake." On his anniversary, he took inventory of his crusades. Mostly they were small-bore: by carefully contrived cracks against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and politicking veterans, he had snared 10,000 letters. They had called him a "fascist, warmonger, race baiter and moron. Added to draft dodger, horse hater, sadist and war criminal, it seems I am a very unsavory gent, indeed, and I sometimes wonder how I stand...
...nearly everything in [radio] is either corny, strident, boresome, florid, inane, repetitive, irritating, offensive, moronic, adolescent or nauseating. . . . Never in the history of humorous entertainment has such a great boon to the comedian come about. But . . . there is something grievously wrong with a business whose outstanding successes [like Fred Allen and Henry Morgan] are most appealing when they are knocking their profession on the head...