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High spot of the evening was the tearful speech of sallow-faced, hollow-eyed Novelist Compton Mackenzie, whose plans for a pro-Edward book, The Windsor Tapestry, were quashed by the Duke himself. "We want him back!" wailed Author Mackenzie. "We don't want to send greetings to France. We want to send them to Fort Belvedere [the Duke's former residence outside London]. The country needs him, for he is the greatest influence for the peace of Europe...
...sinister as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; at its worst it is melodrama with coincidental cracks through which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition to be a priest...
...Whose latest book (THE SINGIN' FIDDLER OF LOST HOPE HOLLOW-Button, $2.50), a biography of her colleague, Fiddler Setters, was published last fortnight...
Some years ago a scientist walked out into a Baltimore park to take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
...March. Then the Government's desterilization program and the fall in commercial loans, gave bonds a rally quite unlike anything stocks have enjoyed, and the average jumped to 88, has since steadied at 85. Despite this pleasant development, the annual frolic at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club which Wall Street's bond traders enjoyed last week, cost them no sacrifice; for bond buying, like stock buying, is in the doldrums...