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...Kear Stars for ANZACS...
...Track, delayed by the Depression, has been ten years perfecting under Dr. Frank G. Kear and Gomer L. Davies of Washington Institute of Technology, Harry Diamond of the National Bureau of Standards, and the Bureau of Air Commerce radio development chief, W. E. Jackson. It consists of three radio transmitters, one to send a radio course beam, one to send a glide beam, and a radio marker beacon. Beacon, transmitters are housed in an automobile trailer that can be moved to the various runways on the landing field. The marker beacon is installed at the end of the runway...
...worth of democracy, Good & Evil. Walpole devotees consider him a good if not a great novelist, a battler on the side of the angels; caustic critics call him pompous and sentimental. Walpole is supposed to be represented in Somerset Maugham's recent Cakes and Ale by "Alroy Kear." snobbish, successful but second-rate English man of letters...
...Author. Publishers Farrar & Rinehart stoutly withhold the real name of "A. Riposte," admit the author may reveal him (or her) self later. Whoever the author may be, he (or she) is obviously a good friend to Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole (pilloried in Cakes and Ale as "Alroy Kear"), obviously has been at pains to ferret out Maugham's career, obviously has a grudge against Maugham. Mindful of possible libel action. "Riposte" steers clear of any reference to Maugham's effeminate men friends (TIME, Oct. 6). Says Publisher John Farrar: "English publishers are cabling violently. ... I feel as though...
...late-won position as Grand Old Man of English Letters was secure. His shrewd second wife wanted an official, respectably-mum-mifying biography, asked the popular novelist Alroy Rear to write it. But Ashenden was one of the few who knew anything about Driffield's early life. When Kear tried to pump him, Ashenden had reason to tell only a little of what he knew. The rest he tells to the reader...