Word: gunthers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BRIGHT NEMESIS-John Gunther-Bobbs-Merrill...
Hiding the glaring impossibilities of their plots behind the still more glaring unreality of their characters is a prerogative of mystery writers that constitutes many a mystery writer's entire stock-in-trade. A welcome exception is Author Gunther, who peoples his well-written murder story with characters recognizably alive. So lively are they, so picturesque is the Balkan political turmoil in which they agitate, that most readers will be more interested in their daily doings than in discovering which one of them murdered the two American boys. Just out of college, the boys were taking an innocent tramp...
...remarkably fine example of the early illustrated book, a copy of "The Book of Troy" by Guido delle Colonne, printed at Augsburg with the type of Gunther Zainer, about 1478, has just been acquired by Harvard University. The only other recorded copy of the book is in the Dresden State Library...
...chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, retired, President of the Harvard Club of Washington from 1923 to 1929, and a director of the Alumni Association, was elected Vice-President of the Alumni Association. Joseph R. Hamlen '04, Boston representative of the firm of Gunther-Law, President of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, was also elected a Vice-President...
Married. Charles Barker Wheeler, 79, referee and former Justice of the Supreme Court of New York; and Miss Ruth Gunther Winant, Manhattan socialite; in St. George's Church, London...