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...abdicate. On Dec. 14 the knob-headed little intervener moved to withdraw his intervention. He was in court last week to explain his series of actions - so suggestive of a successful effort to bamboozle an overwrought man in love, especially since knob-head Stephenson plies the trade of managing clerk in a firm of London lawyers whose important clients unquestionably sided with the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin...
...CLIMBS-C. A. Tarrant- Lippincott ($2). A mousy little clerk accidentally becomes a gentlemanly crook by night, worries his old landlady, a woman boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...
...love' free?" she asked the clerk...
...privilege to have a rather lengthy conversation with Jake concerning the predicament that a faulty gland had placed him in; he has a philosophy that enables him to accept his lot in a manner that should make a lot of us "normal" folk envious of him. ROBERT M. JACKSOX Clerk Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds United States Senate Washington...
...corner drugstores in 33 States can stay put so long as it is profitable, no longer. Now 63, bald, humorless, stern-faced Drugman Walgreen started rolling pills in a Dixon, Ill. drugstore in his teens. He left Dixon for Chicago when he was 20, got a drug clerk's job the day he arrived, started studying to be a pharmacist. He bought his first store on Chicago's South Side when he was 29, his second in 1909 when he was 36. Founding of C. R. Walgreen & Co. in that year so fired his expansion enthusiasm that...