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...Church of England, turned literature lecturer at 21. Illness sent him to California, whence he went to the South Sea Islands, Australia, London. At 28 he showed his stories to British War Correspondent Archibald Forbes who called them "the finest collection of titles" he had ever seen. Having burnt them all, he noticed a woodsman's outfit in a shop window, returned to the Canadian wilderness, went back to England to write wilderness stories (Pierre and His People). His novels of the French regime in the New World were as widely read as Rudyard Kipling's imperialistic reportings...
...generally regarded as France's foremost living writer. Readers who eschew the unsteady brilliance of Jean Cocteau, the cold amorality of Andre Gide, turn with relief to the sympathetic charm, the Judaic kindliness, of Author Maurois. His ironic fire, at its fiercest only kindled laughter, never burnt anyone. An unembarrassing writer, his manners are beautiful-although, like most good manners, a little banal...
...shrine, let the faithful help themselves and leave a small offering in return. Last week this practice was banned in the diocese of Rome by its vicar general, Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani. After July 1 there is to be no crass candle-traffic within the churches. Candles may be burnt as before but it will be less convenient to give a friend a coin and say "Burn a candle for me." Also, there is to be no more photographing of sacred functions, no exuberant decking of shrines with garish artificial flowers. Said Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani: "The present use of candles...
...recite the preceding and succeeding verses; W. W. Pitman of Wharton, Tex. who disarmed a man by shooting a bullet into one of the chambers of his gun; Edward W. Pulick of College Point, N. Y. who was struck by lightning, left uninjured save for singed hair, a burnt straw hat; Robert F. Lancaster of South Whitley, Ind. whose family of 58 has not had a death in 83 years...
...fast Millers, led by Billy Arnold, 1930 winner, 1931 leader until his Miller-Hartz crashed and burnt, led for the first laps. Arnold crashed again at 150 mi. after setting five new records. At 200 mi. only one of the standard cars, high rated for stamina, was among the first ten. In the last half they came up, finished third (Studebaker), fifth (Hupmobile) and sixth (Studebaker). But already down Indianapolis' 2½ mile-long brick oval, in the dust, heat, bedlam and gasoline fumes, a businesslike little car, fat in the middle, had buzzed busily past the finish line...