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...SPOKE LAST?-John V. Turner- Holt ($2). Compleat Angler Petrie fishes from each of six suspects his reason for murder...
Born on a Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once...
...young man named Joseph Ames Mitchell, who had $10,000 and could draw pictures, went to his good friend Henry Holt, the book publisher, and asked help in publishing a humorous magazine. Publisher Holt demurred, advised his young friend to forget it. But Artist Mitchell, who had no business training or experience, was determined. With his $10,000 he launched the magazine himself, called it Life. Publisher Holt dubbed the first issue "Short Life." good-naturedly bought a full-page advertisement. This week the staff of 'Life celebrated the soth anniversary of the day-Jan. 4. 1883- when...
...they have a food crisis and many of them haven't shoes but their devotion is lifting them up to a different plane." Unlike dogmatic Russian Communists who are positive that there is no future life, Son Corliss has recently set down his speculations in Issues of Immortality (Holt, $1.50, 198 pp.). Neatly he poses the question whether or not Modern Man goes to a Modern Heaven, replete with conveniences to which he is accustomed...
...FARAWAY - J. B. Priestley - Harper ($2-75). FLOWERING WILDERNESS-John Galsworthy-Scribner ($2.50). THE FOUNTAIN-Charles Morgan- Knopf ($2.50). GOD'S ANGRY MAN-Leonard Ehrlich -Simon & Schuster ($2.50). GREENBANKS-Dorothy Whipple-Far-rar & Rinehart ($2.50). INHERITANCE-Phyllis Bentley-Mac-millan ($2.50). INVITATION TO THE WALTZ-Rosamond Lehmann-Holt ($2). THE LADY OF THE BOAT - Lady Murasaki-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). LIGHT IN AUGUST-William Faulkner -Smith & Haas ($2.50). LIMITS & RENEWALS-Rudyard Kipling -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A LONG TIME AGO-Margaret Kennedy -Doubleday, Doran ($2). A MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY-Nordhoff & Hall-Little, Brown...