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Like earlier Hamilton Basso heroes. Plantation Owner John Bottomley is clearly derived from John P. Marquand. He is handsome but not terribly bright, brimful of ideals that make life difficult for him. Though often obstinate, he is invariably polite, and when older men say something nauseous, he answers "Yes, sir...
Tibet is cold, filled with silence and bones, haunted by demons; yet Tibetans are a strangely happy people. In the brief two months of summer, they swarm from their dirty, smoke-filled houses, set up white tents with blue trimmings on the river meadows, sing, drink milk beer and tell...
Rather than sell their cattle, livestock-men are now busily building up their herds. At long last, they had excellent conditions for it. Good grazing land was plentiful. Parts of the Southwest had three times as much rain this crop year as last. Soil was moist for six feet down...
For the golfers themselves, the Tournament of Champions is the second-richest competition in the U.S. ($37,500 in prizes).* For gamblers, professional and amateur, it offers golf's biggest Calcutta pool, i.e., player auction. And it offers just the sort of risk the high rollers like to take...
New York has everything. For all the shortcomings, the best New York newspapers are the best in the country. The city is brimful of news. It should be the paradise of the newspaperman.