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...messengers re-elected as their president Dr. Monroe Elmon Dodd, a bald, jovial, Tennessee-born cleric who stepped up from a vice-presidency last year when President Fred T. Brown fell ill. Dr. Dodd went to Shreveport, La. 22 years ago where he helped found a college named Dodd in his honor, of which he is still president. This year he traveled 50,000 miles on Southern Baptist business. A lusty parliamentarian, he whammed his gavel often last week, told the messengers: "Our church is stronger spiritually today than in years. Men are spending more of their time on their...
BLACK FOG-Charles J. Dutton-Dodd, Mead ($2). Murder by poison gas in New England brings Detective Rogan out of pseudo-retirement...
...Avenue, Lady meets wealthy young Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), who falls for her and pursues her everywhere, even after she goes to jail for the crooked dealings of her syndicate. Finally she marries him, only to find he has been mixed up in an affair with Shella Aiken (Claire Dodd). Meanwhile Lady Lee again becomes entangled with her former employer in the syndicate. Mutual jealousy arises; and after an incidental trial for murder and a highly dramatic card game between Lady and Shella, Lady divorces Madison because it is the only way she can save him from a false murder...
MERCHANTS OF DEATH-H. C. Engelbrecht & F. C. Hanighen-Dodd, Mead...
...Authors. Helmuth Carl Engelbrecht, Columbia Ph. D., 39, pacifist, associate editor of The World Tomorrow, met Frank Cleary Hanighen, Harvardman, 35, then editorial factotum with Publisher Dodd, Mead, last autumn, discovered a mutual interest in munitions makers, decided to collaborate. Each had already written one book: Engelbrecht, a study of Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Hanighen, a biography of Santa Anna. Roving Newshawk George Seldes, brother to Litterateur Gilbert Seldes, has taken the lid off many a pot of trouble, stirred it with journalistic zeal. Onetime reporter on the Chicago Tribune, he has dabbled in Art, is now a freelance, has written...