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When Harold Arnold, 14, who lives with his parents on an old houseboat at Edgewater, N. J., entered school this term he proved himself a very bad boy. He chased his teacher about the room with a long, heavy stick until she jumped on a desk, screaming for help. He threw blackboard erasers and handfuls of chalk at teachers and pupils. One day he caught another pupil and banged his head on a concrete floor. Another time he chased frantic children with a rusty, 8-in. knife. He rubbed poison ivy on the faces of several pupils too weak...
...story is of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher. Jarnal Harvey, disappointed by sophisticated Frances, retires to his publisher's houseboat in Manhasset Bay. On the way he upsets his rowboat and is salvaged by beauteous Margot. They form a friendship which prospers. Puttering about the Bay, he meets eccentric Faulkner, gains mental health which he loses by returning to New York and encountering Frances, herself jilted and now hunting him. Faulkner appears, frightens off Frances with threat of scandal...
...summer. Already Enterprise has five suits of sails. Sails for all the "J" boats are made at City Island by Ratsey & Lapthorn, Inc. Each boat has a crew of 36 big-eating seamen and a fleet of satellites - a towing tender, a mothership or houseboat with quarters on it for the crew, launches for the owners. When they lie off Newport each will have a shore telephone connection...
...Davis himself, his generosity, kindness. patience, keenness, humor. Recalled Mrs. Rinehart: "Only Bob himself knows how many writers he has made, nursing them over the bad places, encouraging, cheering, criticizing." Mr. Cobb observed: "Mr. B. Davis is getting pretty brittle," and described how Davis turned his ankle on the houseboat deck, fell, fracturing two bones in the right ankle, tore ligaments and muscular fabric of the left knee...
...when the houseboat Mayflower left Aswan, last week, keen eyed Egyptians saw that the solitaire diamond Princess Ileana accepted from "Lexel" still twinkled on H.R.H.'s engagement finger...