Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selected by the Catholic Book Club as its January choice was A Guide to Catholic Action ($2), edited by Paul McGuire and Rev. John Fitzsimons of Liverpool. Of Layman McGuire, a writer of detective stories on the side (Funeral in Eden), his publishers, Sheed & Ward, say: "There is nothing quite like him for stirring a kind of steady enthusiasm for Being Catholic Out Loud." Some of the Guide's pointers for forming Catholic Action groups: > "The most suitable number for a group is usually about twelve. . . . They are to have a corporate life. They must pray together, study together...
EVEN DOCTORS DIE-Lindsay Anson-Crime Club ($2). Reporter Peter Allen sticks his neck out when he tries to solve the murders of two famed British doctors and a nurse. Provocative plot, mixing a hard-boiled American manner with stiffish Scotland Yard technique...
...Aquatic Park is essentially a glorified bathing place on a more modest scale than Long Island's colossal Jones Beach. Its main pavilion is designed on the lines of a neat white ocean liner-an idea carried out with more zip if less simplicity than in a yacht club at San Sebastian, Spain, where it was tried by Architects Labayen & Aizpurua in 1929. Architect William Mooser Jr. can thank his architect father for Aquatic Park's excessively ugly background: a chocolate factory designed...
...heart of Baltimore's tenderloin is a flashy basement honkytonk called the Oasis. Passers-by are invited to "walk down one flight and save nothing," enter "the worst night club in America," witness "the lousiest shows in the world...
Last week the Oasis celebrated its 14th birthday. Proprietor Max Cohen had done well enough with "the worst night club in America" to buy up all the real estate for a block around...