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...Robert T., Rand 1G., Nilakanta Sastry 2 GB, Royal S. Schaaf '39, and Francis M. Schull 1G. Cellos: Paul A. Alexander '39, Arthur D. Gardiner '39, and Philip E. Morin '39. French horn: Sidney R. Ballou '35. Trombone: Russell B. Edmond '39. Viola: Eit Cantor 1L. Tympani: N. James Dain '39. Bass drum: Sherwood D. Fox '39. Librarian: Harold L. Golden...
...York World and now a Manhattan free lance, Jack Price has long campaigned for the improvement of his unpopular trade by supplying all reporters with cameras to take their own pictures. This procedure would effectively abolish Jack Price's vocation, except for the fact that reporters stubbornly dis dain so practical an accomplishment as photography. Jack Price's trade, how ever, is now further than ever from extinction, because newspaper publishers have discovered that news pictures help circulation and enormously improve their newspapers' appearance. Torn two ways by its journalist's contempt for photography...
...West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer at Sands Point, L. I. within a few feet of the beach, never went swimming. A slow writer, he works on a typewriter, rarely redoes his copy. Other books: The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse...
...Pinkerton detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost them both. Other books: The Dain Curse, Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon...