Word: dodds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EVIL UNDER THE SUN - Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot's little grey cells function on the implausibly executed but beautifully elucidated murder of a blonde siren at a British summer resort. Not Christie's best, but better than most...
APPLEBY ON ARARAT-Michael Innes-Dodd, Mead ($2). A learned Scotland Yarder, marooned with five other loquacious characters on remote Pacific islet, elucidates the slaying of Sir Ponto Unumunu, black anthropologist, and goes on to puncture an Empire-threatening secret of oddly assorted indigenes. Overtones of Evelyn Waugh, G. K. Chesterton and E. P. Oppenheim make it a treat for those who like their mysteries recondite...
MURDER A LA MODE-Eleanore Kelly Sellars-Dodd, Mead ($2). Office intrigue in a department store motivates the murders in this slightly windy but cleverly constructed tale. Authentic big-business background, sprightly heroine-narrator, two defectives with contrasting but efficient methods...
...overworked question of what-holds-back-defense-production, Alvin Earl Dodd, American Management Association president, last week gave a perspicacious answer. His answer: too many of 1941's executives and workers got their training in the Backward Thirties when the brakes were on initiative, the emphasis on managerial conservatism. But now the loudest cry is for dynamic expansion, more output, more speed. For many a man-at-the-wheel this hairpin turn has been too much; now time is lost while they try to regain the road...
...Some Dodd remarks (in his annual report to 4,380 A.M.A. members...