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Dummies and Wives. Two Cavendish members- George Rapee, 29-year-old U.S. individual world contract bridge champion, and Howard Schencken, longtime a Life Master, famed as the bridge experts' expert- are at work on a Check guidebook...
Wrote the U.S.S.R.'s President Mikhail Kalinin in The Agitators' Guidebook, organ of Moscow's Communist Party: "We are often told that among our soldiers, especially those of older age, there are believers who wear crosses and recite prayers whom the younger people ridicule...
About 1933 Hiler suffered from a nervous disorder, got psychoanalyzed. He also had his massive, fanlike ears surgically set back to his skull. Hiler has also suffered from his name. When a San Francisco guidebook spoke of him in 1939 as Hilaire Hitler, he got so mad he sued the publisher and writers for $100,000. Today he seems in fine inner and outer repair. So does Papa, of whom says Hilaire: "He is to painting what Saroyan is to writing: neither knows a thing about his craft; each does a damn good...
...guidebook for each of the 48 States, the U.S. Territories...
Author (James) Branch Cabell of Virginia spent several pleasant winters in St. Augustine, Fla., where he got interested in the character of Pedro Menendez de Aviles, who founded the town (oldest continuous white settlement in the U.S.) in 1565. Cabell read in a guidebook that the headboard of Menendez' coffin was in the City Hall...