Word: conrad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demobilized. In Fort Belvoir, Va., Army Sergeant Chester Conrad got back to his parked car after an hour's absence, could not budge it, found that someone had stolen the entire drive shaft...
Married. John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 24, son of Bertrand Russell, Britain's Socialist philosopher-earl and mathematician; and Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 20, daughter of the late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay; in Washington...
...Steele is an old hand at contriving tales, some of which he tries to tell as Conrad or Maugham would. Those selected in this book - 24 stories written over a span of some 30 years - remain as readable as they were salable in the '20s, when they were hot stuff in Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly. Gullah dialect, a Mohammedan marriage ceremony, the way a schooner's boom may swing when she luffs - such varied "local color" is thickly applied...
...really have nothing to say except, with one accord, "Mr. Steele is making us up." This is an old-fashioned kind of mediocrity. The new-fashioned kind, reportorial and unplotted, has been so done to death that readers might like these tales for a change. Or they might like Conrad and Maugham...
Last week an Alaskan with more current information about the territory was in Washington, D.C. Dr. Conrad Earl Albrecht, Alaska's first full-time commissioner of health, had travelled 5,000 miles from Juneau to the nation's capital with an important message. He told it with table-pounding earnestness. His sorry story...