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...publishers and reviewers, Eldora do falls into the limbo of espionage-thriller-mystery books. A pity, for the story of Luis Cabrillo deserves consideration both as serious fiction and quasi history. As the author acknowledges, Luis is based on a real-life Spaniard code-named Arabel, who blithely invented espionage in Lisbon for the Germans and worked legitimately for the British during the war. Robinson, 48, a Cantabrigian who lives in a Surrey village Wodehousefully named Chipping Sodbury, worked for eight years as a Madison Avenue copywriter to finance his career as a novelist. The experience appears to have sharpened...
...master was Bishop Thomas Megan, of Eldora, Iowa, a stocky, cheerful, healthy man, devoutly Catholic and American. In this theater of death, the missionaries were partners in charity, Americans joining with Europeans, Catholics with Protestants. What outside relief came in, came through the missionaries; where we located them on our travels they were beleaguered-assailed by wasted men, frail women, children, people head-knocking on the ground, groveling, kneeling, begging for food, wailing, "K'o lien, k'o lien"("Mercy, mercy"), but pleading really only for food...
Creston's worried parents scouted around, found that the grownups of Eldora, Wapello, Clinton, Columbus Junction and other Iowa towns had met the menace by offering an annual community-sponsored all-night fling. Last week Creston tried the same remedy. Druggist Rex L. Mitchell sparked the party, got 33 local organizations to cooperate. The junior and senior classes approved the plans, added stipulations: 1) no teachers allowed after the prom, 2) other adults could serve food and drive the cars but were in no way to act like chaperons. The kids picked a name for the fling: "Crestubilee...
Those Who Stay and Beg. In Loyang we went to call on Bishop Thomas Megan of Eldora, Iowa, a greathearted Irish padre. When we came out of his relief dispensary, which is supported by American funds, the refugees tried to mob us. Men fell on their knees, surrounded us, folding hands in supplication...
Edward S. Harkness National Scholarships to Ward S. Fowler 1M., Eldora, Iowa; and Carl C. Gardner, Jr. 1M., Columbia, Tennessee; Daniel Fiske Jones Scholarship to William F. Loomis 1M., Cambridge...