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...previous novels of the series, Lewis Eliot has lifted himself from the pit of shabby genteel poverty, taking a fling at law and teaching, and played the good Samaritan to a headstrong younger brother. When the present novel opens in 1938. Eliot is trudging home to a wife with a "schizoid chill." He has married her out of the weakest virtue, pity, but since he himself has never surfaced emotionally, he can bring her no love. In nagging misery, she commits suicide...
Before they got around to answering that question, the labor leaders had a day of routine business meetings and a chance to tour the nearby golf course, swim in Friendship Lake below the administration building, play tennis and shuffleboard (or, like the auto workers' Walter Reuther, have a fling at square dancing on the shuffleboard court), and view the movie Helen of Troy in Dubinsky's $750,000 lakeside theater. Their every want was tended by Unity House's regular staff of 400, plus 50 extras brought in for the occasion...
Free Copies. Long fancying a fling in journalism, Millionaire Kaplan first decided on the process, then sent aides scouting systematically through Connecticut and New York State to find the ideal town for the newspaper. To launch his publishing career, Kaplan set up a nonprofit company, brought in David Bernstein, 41, onetime newsman (Ithaca Journal-News) and public-relations specialist, who organized the Office of Public Information of the Philippines in 1945. Bernstein gathered a ten-man editorial staff (average age: 35), put in a U.P. news wire, nine comic strips, twelve syndicated columns. "The paper," he says, "is strictly independent...
...published in 1938. Last week the ninth edition went to press for the second printing−an all-time world record for musical reference works. As for Author Scholes, he sat happily in his house in Oxford, wheezing a bit but looking almost spry enough to take a fling at the Can-Can: "A boisterous and latterly indecorous dance . . . Its exact nature is unknown to anyone connected with this Companion...
Deborah not only gets bamboozled; she gets pregnant. When she learns that bad Col. Bill Holden already has a wife, she takes what appears to be The Only Way Out and tries to fling herself from a cliff. Holden saves her, but so clumsily that she is nearly brained in the process. Will she recover? Yes. Will she lose the embarrassing baby? Naturally...