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...Frigate, which scuds from Cape Ann to the Barbary Coast without a second's worry about the finer points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...
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...Vanderbilt, whose cut-off allowance from daughter Gloria Stokowski last March put their family tiff in headlines, found just the place for her new soaps & lotions business: a Manhattan structure known as Peace House. Partner Maurice Chalom leased part of the building from longtime peace-plumper Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, who emphasized to the press: "The 'peace' end of the building continues...
...roundheeled as a neutron, Lanny penetrates the atomic age. Roosevelt packs him off to Princeton for a cram-and-jam (physics and Mozart) session with Albert Einstein, thence to Germany to abduct atomic data. But a plane crash lays Lanny up on a spiffy yacht; two lovely young shipmates make sweet moan at him all the way to Hong Kong...
...comes off Gus Kuester's farm on four trotters and squealing like a buzz saw. Poland China and Spotted Poland China hogs are the crop to which his whole farm economy is geared. The acres of corn, the acres of oats, the acres of hay exist chiefly to cram the maws of pigs and finish about 200 hogs a year as efficiently (that is, as quickly and cheaply) as possible to meet the exigencies of marketing...