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...Downtown, women and children crowded through the plaster arches and narrow corridors of Managua's covered market to do their Holy Week shopping. At the old dirty-white adobe National Penitentiary Lieut.-Commander Hugo F. A. Baske, U. S. naval doctor, and Quartermaster's Clerk James F. Dickey paused to exchange a word with the acting warden, Lieut. James L. Denham of the U. S. Marines. They stepped inside to inspect the ancient odorous cells...
Tame and Yellow. Returning from his third season in the Orinoco Valley, Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, staff member of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, described 50 more previously unexplored miles of the Orinoco River. He had stories to tell of unusually small ducks, jet black parrots, red morning glories as big as saucers. Dr. Dickey called upon the Guaharibos Indians who, someone had told him, were white and mean. Instead he found them yellow and sweet-tempered. They wear no clothes, live in the Stone Age manner. Dr. Dickey had taken harmonicas with him for gifts, discovered...
...Outlook-magazine as new managing editor last week went Carl Chandlee Dickey, long schooled on the New York Times, World's Work and on McClure's until Hearst scrapped it two years ago. He replaces Henry F. Pringle, leaving to finish his biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Be- fore vacating his office, Editor Pringle saw published in Outlook the first instalment of his most recent notable acquisition, a well-documented, impartial survey of Prohibition by Author Charles Merz (The Great American Bandwagon, And Then Came Ford), able understudy of the New York World's Editor Walter Lippmann...
Ruskin Golding and Paul Dickey, for whom the plea of inexperience may not be urged...
Although called a comedy, Through The Night is really a variety of mystery play. Actress Helen MacKellar is wedded to a righteous hypocrite who has been appointed Crime Commissioner of a metropolitan suburb. Having pitched their drama in an urbane setting, Playwrights Golding & Dickey feel free to introduce all the standard elements of bogus stage high life-a crafty butler, a drunken polo player, an. unscrupulous Spanish noblewoman, a millionaire and his wife, a smart lawyer who sympathizes with Actress MacKellar. The story gets under way when the rich neighbors are robbed of their jewelry. Miss MacKellar catches a smooth...