Word: j
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...J. S. ROBERTSON...
...J. HUNTER...
...Major Carl F. Greene & Captain Alfred H. Johnson for pioneering the stratosphere in pressurized planes "with utter disregard for personal safety"; on Captains George V. Holloman & Carl J. Crane for automatic instrument landings under like hazard...
Newsboys are also newspapermen, and a true old timer is San Antonio's Horace Greeley J. Heckman, a stoop-shouldered, loose-jointed, slap-happy gaffer of 64, who has been selling the Light on the corner of Travis and North St. Mary's Streets for the past 17 years. Newsboy Heckman says he is an M.A. (for Master Accountant), has worked in eight banks and sold newspapers in New York, California, Mexico, South America and at the Paris Exposition of 1900. He wears an old straw hat and baggy breeches, drinks "sulfur water" out of a whiskey bottle...
...COUNSELLOR-J. J. Connington-Little, Brown ($2). An English Voice of Experience hunts for a missing girl and stumbles into a pleasant and exhilarating murder case. Merits: a neatly involved plot; an engaging new sleuth (Mark Brand, "The Counsellor"). Fault: readers can beat the author to the solution...