Word: folios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes the rest most men required a night for, Perelman spent the balance dictating novels (Jo Bracegirdle's Ordeal, The Splendid Sinners), essays (Winnowings, The Anatomy of Gluttony, Turns with a Stomach), plays (Are You There, Wimperis?, Musclebound, Philippa Steps...
...FOLIO ON FLORENCE WHITE-Will Oursler-Simon & Schuster ($2). The girl secretary of a Manhattan aircraft executive, having done time on a framed-up theft charge, is accused of killing her ex-office mate. Two keen lawyers take up cudgels for her, unearth another and very grisly murder, and by swift thinking and quick action bring the well-tangled plot to a satisfactory solution...
...trouble until we beat him a trifle with a Class Marshal's baton, rifled his pockets and hid him behind a sign marked "Michael Peebly Chowder and Marching Club, Sections MM-J6 Inclusive." Along with a time whistle, an Eliot Houce saucer, an Ibis, three Dunster spoons, a Shakespeare Folio and a sign from the Fogg reading "Please refrain from breathing on the walls," there was one copy, slightly mutilated, of the 25th Anniversary Guide. Grasping it tightly in our grubby little fist, we fled in terror...
That she is not prepared, however, to abandon southward expansion, Lieut. Rianburo Ando, minister without port folio, revealed last night in predicting Japan will try to cut China's Burma Road and move into the Netherlands East Indies...
...There is a natural affinity between sport and book collecting. . . . The joys of the chase and the exultation in achievement after an arduous hunt, whether of fox, pheasant or folio, have much in common." Thus graciously the Grolier Club last week mixed foxes and folios in an exhibit of members' sporting books and prints in its Manhattan clubhouse. Within its print-hung, paneled walls, smelling of old leather bindings and armchairs, the Grolier is a club of booklovers more interested in a richly tooled cover than in a succulent footnote or limpid trochee. It was founded...