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WHISPERING TONGUES-Laurence Kirk -Doubleday, Doran ($2). The gossip of an English village brings Forster-Daintree to the dock after his wife's death and his almost immediate second marriage. Although he is acquitted, the whisper of poisoner still persists. The village doors are locked at night. Twined throughout the district are the tendrils of the Forster family, spoiled and queer from intermarriage and frustration. When death of the clan's head reveals murder for pride, the village breathes again, but does not understand...
Announcement of the plans for the third annual Geological Field School to be held in New Mexico this summer were made yesterday by Kirk Bryan, assistant professor of Physiography. The school will open on June 27 in Albuquerque and will run until August...
...improved her station in life by performing in a wild animal act and putting her head in a lion's mouth. As an important circus celebrity she continues to make advances to most of the men she meets. When young Kirk (Kent Taylor) kisses the inside of her hand, she rolls her eyes and growls: "You got me!" After ejecting Kirk's fiancee, Tira receives another caller whom she entertains more hospitably. He is Jack Clayton (Gary Grant), Kirk's cousin, who has come to request that she leave young Kirk alone. After one look at Clayton...
Died. Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, 79, retired Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess...
...Memorial Day morning, Warden Kirk Prather stepped out into the prison yard of the Kansas State Penitentiary. In one more day Warden Prather, a bald, big-nosed man, was to complete his two-year tour of duty. He had just come back from Washington where, as a deserving Democrat, he felt he had made a good impression. There was a chance that he might become head of the Federal prison at nearby Leavenworth ("The Bankers' Institute"). He turned his attention to the ball game in progress between two American Legion teams from Topeka and Leavenworth. Guards and most prisoners...