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JUSTICE BE DAMNED-A. R. Hilliard -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Mr. Peabody is standing trial for shooting his wife's lover, whose presumptive bones have just been fished out of the river. Actually, a clever schemer is using Judge Manfred's court and Defense Attorney Carver to murder Mr. Peabody. Theatrical, but the Judge does some fine, lofty detecting...
...sideline to his carpentering and cranberry farming, Finnish Fanner Andrew Paananen took to sanding cranberry bogs in Carver, Mass. For this crop-improving work he got two $15 checks from the Department of Agriculture. Last week, when he opened his third Government pay check, all Andrew Paananen could say was "Look." The check...
...story of Pinocchio, the little puppet who finally becomes a real boy, is a natural for Walt Disney, for the creation of life where there was none before is his own specialty as well as Geppetto's, the wood-carver. Dwelling lovingly over each faltering step Pinocchio makes toward boyhood, Disney has created a character far more moving than any child actor of flesh and blood has ever drawn. When Disney has oiled up his last joint, and taken the last squeak out of his hinges, here is a boy worthy to be the son of warm-hearted old Geppetto...
...merit system proved itself early in the game. Sandy-haired Tar Heel Herschall Carver, serving a life term, got out of solitary confinement where he had spent most of a year for misconduct, became the orchestra's best musician. Impressed. Warden H. H. Wilson furnished funds for the band instruments, presented Carver with an electric guitar. Drawled Carver: "I ought to learn to play this thing. I've got a lifetime...
...Tuskegee Big Jim placed a wreath on the Booker T. Washington monument (Washington lifting a -veil from the eyes of a startled slave). Then he greeted frail old George Washington Carver, ate fried chicken, reviewed a parade. After Negro Tenor Roland Hayes had made his radio debut in a broadcast from Boston, Mr. Farley compared Booker T. to George Washington, to Robert E. Lee, shook many a black hand, visited the founder's grave, went on to Auburn. Mr. Farley ate chicken once again (he hates it), entrained for Atlanta, with Georgia and North Carolina...