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...Bound Brook...
...delicate bawdry in a warless, now almost mythical England, written by a Malta-born curlylocks named Margery Sharp, author of The Nutmeg Tree. Professor Isaac Pounce disrupts the village of Gillenham by uncovering a legendary steppingstone from which unchaste lassies, unfaithful wives invariably slip into the brook.* Miss Carmen "Smith," the artists' model, slipped of course; but nobody expected that the stone would reveal the professor's mild nephew, Nicholas, to be a bastard-or that Nicholas would rejoice at the news...
...Midlands manufacturer who was down in his output because of a shortage of certain classes of material and labor. A neighbor ing manufacturer had a surplus of both the material and the men, but Manufacturer No. 1 was not on speaking terms with Manufacturer No. 2. So Lord Beaver brook telephoned first one and then the other, coaxed them into cooperating. Next thing he heard, they were buddies...
This year, just a whip's crack from Westbury's famed old Meadow Brook Club, another hardy sport will bloom in September. On the site of the barren Roosevelt Raceway, into which four years ago a group of Eastern sportsmen sank $1,000,000 with the hope of bringing auto racing back to the East, another group of Eastern sportsmen has just sunk $100,000 to revive harness racing...
...Minister of In formation and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1917 The Beaver began making a huge Fleet Street fortune by giving London a cockeyed version of low-brow U. S. journalism. "I have all the money any man can want!" Lord Beaver brook likes to boast, slapping his trouser pocket for dramatic emphasis while conservative Britons shudder...