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...plot, however, he has successfully overcome any dangerous tendencies toward skilful craftsmanship, and has turned out a most amazing burst of oozy sentiment. The jacket description of the plot follows: "Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful business in New York, and plays hookey in the Maine farming country, in the very house where he was born. After fifteen years he meets his boyhood sweetheart and finds her perfect in her country setting, but no longer of his world. This experience has an unexpected ending...
...looks the sea-dog's part, is brave and modest, has been termed a "huge, friendly fire-eater." As Commander of the U. S. S. New York he received the Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" with the British Grand Fleet in the North Seas. In 1918 hs became Rear Admiral; in 1925 he was made Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Battle Fleet, succeeding Admiral Samuel S. Robison, his brother-in-law. Admirals Hughes and Robison both married daughters of the late Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, who commanded the Oregon in its famed dash around...
Mosquito Bane. At Atlantic City, N. J., Dr. William Rudolphs of Rutgers told the 13th annual convention of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association that, after four years' study, hs had found he was safe for two or three hours from the itch-producing proboscides of mosquitoes, no matter how ravenous, after smearing on his epidermis: 14 units of ordinary insect-powder extract and 96 units of vaseline, cold cream or face-powder...
...like the inside of a high-class automobile. Every detail of control, seating and power plant installation is perfect. Mooring rings and anchor provide for any kind of emergency landing. When a ship such as the Graylark is compared with the seaplanes used during the War, such as the HS-2, equipped with the same Liberty motor, but painfully making 68 to 70 miles per hour, huge in wing spread, clumsy to handle in the air and on mooring, there is every reason for congratulations on the progress made...
...have no quarrel with our neighbor on Mt. Auburn street. He goes his way and we follow plodding. Any attempt on our part to catch him or his humor, like a projected theft of Thor's thunder,-could hope for no higher fate than drowning in the gloomy dep hs of our own ink-horn. Besides to be funnier than Lampy one must be intensely serious and come out early and often,-in many extras,-and we cannot hope to compete with the "Telegram...