Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every day some 50,000 New Yorkers spend a nickel to dial MEridian 7-1212, hear a telephone operator chirp the correct time. This week, to "increase the scope and value" of its services-and to collect an estimated 3,000 nickels a day-the New YorkTelephone Co. opens a new exchange. Dialers will hear a 25-second weather report, recorded on magnetic tape from information supplied at least four times daily by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Phone: WEather...
SOME DAY I'LL KILL You-Dana Chambers-Dial ($2). Murder and mayhem in the Connecticut countryside. Fast and witty, despite the somewhat Flash Gordon plot...
...FISH-Odon von Horvath-Dial...
...these, the most promising future belongs to Elizabeth Bowen. With her fifth and best novel, The Death of the Heart, she comes to the literary maturity promised in her other four-promised as far back, in fact, as the 205, when she published her first short stories in The Dial. Plain readers should find her coming-of-age as congenial as the most exacting critic...
...Black Jacobins, by C. L. R. James (Dial Press, $3.75), is an impassioned account of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Santo Domingo revolution, written from the Marxist point of view by a young British Negro. It bristles with harrowing atrocities, fiery denunciations of imperialism, but manages to give a vivid account of a revolution which greatly influenced U. S. history before the Civil...