Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Kansas City a ghost from the past of Universal Oil Products arose to plague a man who had also hoped to share the wealth created by Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. U. S. oil companies did not reward the inventor and his backers out of the goodness of their hearts. To establish its claims to its oil-cracking process, Universal fought many a long patent suit, one of them with Standard Oil of Indiana. Special master in that suit was an obscure Missouri lawyer from Sedalia named Holmes Hall. For his services he was allowed...
Hero-narrator of Author Sandemose's book, however, is not a retired litterateur but a retired murderer. Espen Arnakke, 34, has settled in Norway, become a respectable paterfamilias. Still haunted by the memory of the murder he committed 17 years ago, he tries to lay the ghost by telling the story of his life. But it is less a story than a one-sided conversation, a kind of soliloquery which wanders, digresses, returns again & again to the problem: why should this little boy have grown up to be a murderer? Author Sandemose's eccentrically concentric chronicle is impressively...
Author Carmer's approach to Northern New York is suggested by the romantic legend that gives his book its title. Sometimes dwellers there hear a sound of distant drumbeats. Are they made by the ghost of an English officer executed during the Revolution? Are they echoes of the death drums of the Senecas? In this fertile field of supernaturalism mystics, fanatics, founders of religious faiths and Utopian colonies have long bred in the Empire State's northern hills. Author Carmer says that the roar of the cities overwhelms the sound of the drum, which may be interpreted...
Died. Montague Rhodes James, 73, British educator and classicist, since 1918 Provost of Eton College; after long illness; in Eton, England. Respected among scholars for his Bible studies, his wider fame rested on his best-selling antiquarian ghost stories. His paragraph in Who's Who was 14 lines longer than his nearest competitor, Nicholas Murray Butler...
...famed dead men of whom present-day Germany is least proud are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Though in Naziland their names are a byword and a hissing, they are revered by radicals the world over. Marx, the Holy Ghost of the Soviet Trinity, author of Capital and the Communist Manifesto, is now a familiar spook even to men-in-the-street, but few newspaper readers have ever encountered the shade of Engels. Until Gustav Mayer's German life of Engels was last week translated into English, there was no biography of him available to U. S. readers...