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Finally Lawyer Stirrett stalked out, made a little trip to the office of the mining recorder. Examining maps and blueprints of International's holdings, he became very interested. As well as studious Mr. Stirrett could tell, International had neglected to register mineral rights to some land near its Creighton mine (the company's biggest producer in World War I)-including part of the company town of Creighton...
...girls not only stand out as distinct individuals but also mature in the course of the volume. At points the intimate realism in describing Flip's artistic ambitions, her crush on Professor Brooks Creighton, and her feeling of estrangement from the life at home, approaches the bitter dissection of college life in Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"-though Miss Carrick's approach lacks his sweeping inclusiveness and turgid power. Her polished style and delicate portrayal temperament are more in the urbane manner of Willa Cather. Only the concluding chapter betrays a novice hand. The threads of the plot, unsnarled...
Herbert S. Allen Jr., Manchester, N.H., Phillips Exeter Academy; Stanley R. Ashby Jr., Orono, Mc., Groton School; Paul Coste Jr., Jamestown, R.I., Kent School; Roger L. Creighton, Belment, New Hampton School; John J. Dorgan Jr., Providence, R.I., Classical High School; Kenneth Fremont-Smith, Cambridge, Phillips Exeter Academy; Alan N. Houghton, West Hartford, Conn., Loomis School; John D. Kendall, Fairfield, Conn., Wooster School; Ernest L. Levinger, Fitchburg, George Washington School, N.Y.C...
...there after a three-month absence, declaring he had: joined Canada's Black Watch; ferried bombers to Britain; air-dueled with Germans. He wore a windbreaker bearing the insignia of the New York Rangers' hockey team; one shoulder was tattooed with the Black Watch insignia. Colonel Creighton Webb, Jakie's great-uncle, said there wasn't going to be any elopement. Newport waited...
...Omaha next year Vance turns up, gets a job as scout in Creighton's line-building expedition. Vance takes one look at Creighton's pretty sister (Virginia Gilmore) and decides to go straight. But as the line of poles with its thin strand of wire moves slowly west, they meet a band of outlaws who steal their horses, turn the Indians against them, fire their camp. Leader of the outlaws is Vance's brother, Jack Slade (Barton MacLane). Vance's resolution wavers but in the end he proves worthy of Creighton's trust, dies...