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Paying his first visit to the U. S., British Novelist James Hilton (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips,) announced: "I want to see the obvious things in America." Driving down Manhattan's Park Avenue next day he nearly ran over a policeman with a drawn revolver, was warned to keep his distance because there might be "some shooting." Popeyed, Novelist Hilton watched more policemen closing in, heard that bandits had just robbed swank Pickslay Co.'s jewelry store of $15,000 in loot...
...watched his opponent in the final of the British Amateur Championship putt on the last green. If the ball went into the cup, it meant that their match was all even. If it stayed out, it meant that Little had done what only one golfer, Harold Hilton in 1900 and 1901, had done in this century: won the British Amateur two years in a row. In those protracted seconds while the ball was rolling smoothly toward the cup, there would have been ample time for Little to review in his own mind all the events that...
...even in the role of Santa Claus. At rumors that a housing specialist with sub-Cabinet rank will be appointed to head that section of the Ministry of Health, Manchester's Liberal Guardian grew enthusiastic: "This step saves the Government from the unpleasant necessity of demanding Sir Edward Hilton Young's resignation." Says Santa Sir E. with the incorrigible stiffness of a Nelsonian Old Etonian: "The nation's help will be given in no ungenerous spirit to effect a permanent raising of our standard of civilization...
SOLD OUT TO THE FUTURE-Roy Hilton -Harper ($2.50). An argument against posterity, by the novelist author of Nitchey Tilley...
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS?James Hilton ?Little, Brown...