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Today the Marines still have a fanatic pride in their Corps, accumulated through the years by service in foreign parts, in troublous times. As in 1800, Marines are still preoccupied with smart appearance, cling jealously to fancy dress uniforms of blue, scarlet and gold, raise their sea soldiers in the...
Pomp attended to, the Episcopalians got to business. The 130-odd members of the House of Bishops sat themselves down at workmanlike desks in the Auditorium's Little Theatre under the easygoing gavel of Bishop Tucker. (He asked his fellow prelates not to smoke during regular sessions: "I am...
VERDICT OF TWELVE-Raymond Post-gate-Crime Club ($2). In the trial of Mrs. van Beer for the poisoning of her nephew, the verdict has nothing to do with the evidence. It is formed out of the past lives of the jurors themselves-among them a murderess, a religious fanatic...
This was contrary to the vague, easygoing war aims sponsored for the past eight months by the Allies. According to these the German people are being misled by a fanatic (as Woodrow Wilson said the Kaiser misled them). Let them turn Hitler out and a generous peace along the lines...
THE LABYRINTHINE WAYS - Graham Greene - Viking ($2.50). Novelist Greene writes out-of-the-ordinary adventure stories (others: The Man Within, The Name of Action, Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent), combining tense narrative and limbo-like atmosphere. In The Labyrinthine Ways he finds an almost ideal character for his talents: the...