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...Oklahoma: It was dark when the Smith special entered Oklahoma. Only a few wakeful members of the party saw, in the small hours of the morning, the thing burning in a black, empty field???a fiery cross...
...GOOD WOMAN?Louis Brom-field???Stokes ($2.50). This book were better left unpublished. Coming on the heels of three splendid predecessors, the last of which (Early Autumn, 1926) won a Pulitzer Prize and brought the author back from his European haunts in a triumph of press-agentry, it is a sorry letdown. Florid, artificial, repetitious, it is incredibly dull and sloppy work to come from an author of Mr. Bromfield's well-earned reputation...
...Moderates, led by no one man but rather by a broad group whose theology is Fundamental yet not militant to the extent of imposing its tenets upon all Presbyterians by other than the duly constituted judicial agencies of the Church. Its political program was to put in the field???as it successfully did last year after the Modernist-Fundamentalist fight had reached its peak?a tolerant nonmilitant Fundamentalist who would administer church affairs in a businesslike way and smooth over internal disputes...
...began his career as a lawyer in White Oaks, a cow-town "where undertakers were more in demand than lawyers." Later he settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field???other books include The Story of the Cowboy, (praised by Theodore Roosevelt), The Man Next Door, The Girl at the Halfway House and The Covered Wagon, which, in its movie incarnation, gave him, perhaps, his widest audience...