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...Angeles Limited between Chicago and Los Angeles is $82.28. Coach fare on The Challenger between the same points will be $34.50-almost down to bus levels. Travelers on the Los Angeles Limited have at their disposal a maid, hairdresser, barber, valet, bath, buffet, radio and soda fountain...
...with its ruins & ashes, then of "the almost childish delight of a people who have a continental love for artistic pursuits." In his scherzo he quoted from Cara Nome, harking back to the Christmas Eve in 1910 when Luisa Tetrazzini sang it on the square by Lotta's Fountain. In the finale he loudly attempted to glorify modern engineering, the skyscrapers and the great new bridge over San Francisco...
When Charles Morgan wrote The Fountain (1932) it was variously hailed as a big book, a pretentious imposture, a masterpiece, a phony. Sparkenbroke will raise the same contradictory contentions. Like its predecessor it is a long (551 pp.), serious novel on a solemn theme. Whether it was heavily ridiculous or gravely sublime was a question for the reader's taste, sympathy, sense of humor. Discerning readers last week gave Sparkenbroke high marks for good intentions and pomposity, refused to consider it as a masterpiece, but conceded that its weighty persistence was more impressive than the average novel...
...plane droned up the steep pass beyond the tree line, its motors suddenly coughed. Back at once circled the pilot in search of a landing place. Before he could find one, his plane was caught in a strong air current, slithered downward, crashed in a fountain of flame on the rocky saddle between the two dormant volcanoes. When rescuers climbed up over the mountain flank, most of the 14 bodies were incinerated beyond recognition...
...roughest company in the toughest mining towns of the Southwest, has apparently acquired no more vicious taste than a fondness for vanilla milkshakes. After last week's fight, his first in defense of the title he won from Bob Olin last autumn, Lewis refreshed himself at a soda fountain, retired to his training camp to consider offers for fights in Paris, London, Sydney...