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...DAFFODIL AFFAIR - Michael Innes - Dodd, Mead ($2). For those who like sinister Chestertonian foolery, a completely fantastic and delightful story of the kidnapping of a young English girl with a dual personality, the theft of a learned horse ("Daffodil") and the disappearance of a Bloomsbury mansion. Inspector Appleby of Scotland Yard travels from England .to the jungles of South America for the amazing solution...
Schumann: Symphony No. I ("Spring") (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Opening with a trumpet call like a daffodil, this romantic work unfolds exuberantly. Best recording to date...
More practically, Representative J. William Ditter of Pennsylvania, Republican Congressional campaign chief, pointed out that the G. O. P. had lost 43 districts in 1938 by less than 3%. The 7% in Ohio's 17th looked as lovely as the first daffodil to Massachusetts' wily Representative Joe Martin, G. O. P. pilot in the House. A shift of 47 seats would place Mr. Martin's plump little frame under the great crystal chandelier† that hangs in the Speaker's office...
...closed the college laundry and farm, saved money by buying eggs and sending the laundry out. He could truly boast that he had a good-looking campus, one of the most beautiful in the U. S. In a few weeks its apple and cherry trees and its 150,000 daffodil bulbs will begin to blossom. But his principal achievement was what he had done to Swarthmore...
From Rotterdam last week arrived the first of the 100,000,000 tulip, gladioli, iris, hyacinth, crocus and daffodil bulbs worth some $5,000,000 which the Dutch annually export to the U. S. This week the cordial trade relations between The Netherlands and the U. S. blossomed with the announcement that a vacant lot in Manhattan's Radio City will soon sprout a Netherlands Building...