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MOTHER & FOUR-Isabel Wilder- Coward-McCann ($2). Long-winded family struggles in a university town, by Thornton Wilder's sister...
NEVER ASK THE END-Isabel Paterson -Morrow...
...Isabel Paterson writes book reviews for the Manhattan Herald Tribune, is principally noted for her weekly columns of literary chatter, "Turns With a Book-worm." In spare moments she writes novels, of which Never Ask the End is the latest and will apparently be the most successful (it is the Literary Guild choice for January). Many a reader who admires Authoress Paterson's flip, common-sensical newspaper way will shake a puzzled head over Never...
...Santa Isabel on the Island of Fernando Po is the Guinean Capital. Starting out with his secretary and a small suite. Governor General Don Gustavo de Sostoa, a popular veteran of the Spanish colonial service in Morocco, had been inspecting small islands for days. He came at last to Annobon, wrung the trusty Sergeant's hand, sat down to a festive, tropical dinner and prepared to endure the native dance. Shrill native pipes squealed, drums throbbed. Black men began to dance and no one noticed white Sergeant Castilla...
Engaged, Dr. James Rowland Angell, 63, president of Yale University; and Katherine Cramer Woodman, daughter of Stuart Warren Cramer, textile manufacturer and G. O. Politician of Cramerton, N. C. Dr. Angell's first wife, Marion Isabel Watrous of Des Moines, died in June 1931. Their two children are Professor James Waterhouse Angell of Columbia University and Mrs. William Rockefeller McAlpin of New York. Mrs. Woodman's husband, a onetime vice president of Cramerton Mills, N. C., by whom she has six children, died...