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...President Hoover last week appointed Hanford MacNider, Iowa-born (1889), Harvard-educated (1911), onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War, to be U. S. Minister to Canada. An A. E. F. Lieutenant Colonel with many a military decoration, Mr. MacNider was national commander of the American Legion...
...paid. He set out in leisurely fashion and produced the quite delightful and mellow first chapter. Then his portable typewriter clicked off the pages without revision, embodying scraps from his note book in toto, even including some doggerel verse--verse undoubtedly as fine as was ever written by any Iowa-born American in the French Air Service. But it is not literature, not until the next-to-last chaper. In these forty pages Mr. Hall describes the fate of "The Forgotten One," an Englishman who chose almost absolute solitude on a tiny island as the goal of life. For some...