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Cunard White Star officials, mopping their brows with relief, called attention to the happy fact that in the few minutes that her engines raced full speed astern they had felt none of the vibration that has been the curse of the French Line's Normandie. Chief Engineer Llewellyn Roberts...
Like most successful writers, Author Stern likes and approves her successful fellows, contemns her somehow threatening colleagues whose brows are higher: "I would give you the Hundred Most Massive Highbrow Living Writers, the kind who creak and heave as they thrust their shoulders at the wheel, like figures in a...
Elizabeth Bowen's progress as a novelist has been no less remarkable than the lack of attention her progress has aroused. Though it was obvious from her first book that she was an exceptionally gifted writer she has had the unfortunate faculty of frightening plain readers away. Her first...
"In the past few years," he declared, "there have been three outstanding cosmetic procedures that have been dangerous to the general public: Removal of superfluous hair by X-ray which has resulted in scars and cancer; the use of certain dyes on the eyelashes and eye-brows which has caused...
A shade over six feet tall and able to look taller, Philip Merivale has a deep, rich voice which wraps itself expertly around the most ponderous periods. He has a self-confident way of handling capes, cloaks and togas. His grave, bony face seems as incapable of timidity as it...