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...BISHOP MURDER CASE−S.S. Van Dine−Scribners...
...that. Other murders followed. One John Sprigg was shot through the middle of his wig. A scholarly hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...
...Dine is the murder-case pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright, art critic and onetime editor of Smart Set (TIME, Sept. 10, PEOPLE.) The Canary Murder Case is, far and away, his best...
...proposed to aid this aim by providing a common eating place to bring the men together. But contact between them would be decidedly hindered if one or the other had first to hurdle over the impediment of a "high table". The social touch in bringing tutor and student to dine in the same room would be little more than that had at a political luncheon in honor of a candidate for office. There the guest of honor sits at a head table and makes a formal speech, but no new personal contacts are formed...
...program of entertainment is being arranged. Immediately before the meeting. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics: R. W. Clark '23. Assistant Director of Athletics: C. F. Getchell. General Manager of the H. A. A.: J. E. Barrett '30: captain of the team: Lage: and several others will dine informally at the Union, the Varsity Club being closed as far as dining facilities are concerned...