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...BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON - Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Peter and Harriet (Gaudy Night, TIME, Feb. 24, 1936) spend their honeymoon in an ancient English farmhouse and discover smoking fireplaces, eccentric neighbors, cold-blooded murder and-a greater understanding...
Between Christmas and New Year, when students have gone home for their midwinter frolic, university scientists are accustomed to put down their textbooks and laboratory tools and go on a busman's holiday. Soberly they attend dozens of conventions, read thousands of papers, talk shop, elect officers, award prizes, take stock of a year's progress, get their names in the newspapers, mingle with a sprinkling of industrial colleagues. Last week geologists convened in Cincinnati, geographers in Syracuse, mathematicians in Durham, N. C., philosophers in Cambridge, astronomers in Frederick, Md. (see p. 52), anthropologists in Washington, chemists...
...Busman Wickman sold out for $60,000, wandered to Duluth where he began buying up small businesses. Established as Northland Transportation Co., this system prospered so sweetly it looked good to Great Northern Railway's then President Ralph Budd. Unlike other railmen, he considered busses not as rivals but as possible allies. In 1926 Great Northern therefore bought 80% of "Northland for $240,000. Leaving that concern largely in Great Northern's capable hands, Busman Wickman formed Greyhound Corp., a holding company for a baker's dozen of other buslines which he & associates proceeded...
...Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong player, indefatigable host, he likes to keep long and late hours. No busman on a holiday, he reads few detective stories, much philosophy. An insomniac, it often takes a whole volume of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer at Sands Point, L. I. within a few feet of the beach, never...
DEATH BEHIND THE DOOR - Victor MacClure-Houghton Mifflin ($2). Scotland Yard's ace detective, on a busman's holiday, scents murder in accidental death. A motive of art-appreciation is proven posthumously, in a solution by confession...