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...Before Dashiell Hammett came over the horizon, U. S. readers could point with pride to no first-rate living U. S. authors of detectifiction (with the exception of such competent plot-tanglers as Mary Roberts Rinehart, S. S. Van Dine). Though murder stories have long been the main meat of a solid minority of U. S. readers, the quality of the domestic supply has been fortified by English importations. But no longer can oldsters shake their heads over the departed glories of Edgar Allan Poe. In Dashiell Hammett the U. S. has again a first-rate writer of crime stories...
...DRAGON MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribner...
...Undoubted reason: to spare the President the ordeal. The number of guests at the five other receptions will be curtailed. Guests whose names are removed from those lists will be received after the five state dinners. First of these affairs occurs this week, when the President and his lady dine the Cabinet. After that the White House calendar is arranged thus...
...that might startle a tutor. Occasional tenders of friendship from the students, such as cocktails, or a snifter or two of pre-war Scotch, would also certainly help to overcome the reluctance of the dons. If only all of them would consider the few of their number who do dine with college men, and the many happy times so spent, perhaps all of them would find the way to that broader and richer life which every tutor longs for. That would be a happy day indeed for the resident staff of the House, for they would at last be actually...
...Eastern men's colleges-at a Manhattan luncheon. In 1932 they had their needs studied by an advisory council headed by Newton D. Baker and including Bernard Mannes Baruch, Thomas William Lament and Owen D. Young. Last week the banded seven sent their presidents West, to dine in St. Louis with friends and alumnae. They went in a distinguished phalanx-Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Marion Edwards Park, Mary Emma Woolley, Ada Louise Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner speaker they produced Pundit Walter Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann, whose wife Faye Albertson went...