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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humorless blurb writer for this, Mr. Cozzens' third novel, declares on the jacket that it is "A dramatic and exciting novel of Cuba, where SUGAR dominates and warps men's lives." His unhappiness of expression is lamentable, but a perusal of Cock Pit discloses that his analysis is substantially correct. It is rather to be regretted that he does not mention any other of Cock Pit's qualities or characteristics, for Cock Pit is a pretty good book...
...setting is convincing and not obtrusive--always a danger in writing of "far lands and strange peoples." The plot tends toward the melodramatic, with a correct and fatuous happy ending--very satisfactory from the perfectionist point of view. One perceives in the first forty pages that dirty work is afoot; the dirty work is done; it is straightened out, and if, with the aid of a map inside the cover, one untangles the maze of proper names, one can comprehend and appreciate the situations in the sugar intrigue...
Just a few lines to correct a misstatement made by one Eugento Vera in your issue of Sept. 3 concerning the success of the Debating Team of the University of Puerto Rico in the Eastern States this past spring. This team did not win in all its debates. It was defeated by Boston University on April 10, by Bates about a week later and then by Princeton. Of the dozen or so debates in which the Porto Ricans took part, only two were in Spanish. This in itself is certainly an exceedingly fine comment on how much interest is taken...
...your issue Aug. 27 page 16 you give Josef Stalin's correct name as "Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili." Will you, if you can, please give the secret of the pronunciation of his name? D. H. JOHNSON
Time. New York Telephone Co. subscribers bought time, last week, at the rate of 5? a unit. They could lift the receiver, call Meridian 1212 and demand the correct time, paying the regular charge for a local call. On the first day of the new service, 10,246 subscribers paid $512.30 for the time...