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Sipping coffee and reading the business section of the Times in an Automat at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, she came upon an ad announcing the opening of a new investment-counseling firm, Glass & Krey, just up the street. Sylvia made the trip over in such a hurry that her Phi Beta Kappa key was still swinging like a pendulum on her bosom when she arrived at the desk of Arthur William Glass. The sight of the pendant transfixed him. "I've always wanted to hire someone with one of those," he murmured before Sylvia could open her mouth...
Main criticisms of U. S. literary clubwomen about U. S. publishing are that books cost too much, are too long, that publishers try to dictate their reading habits by high-pressure publicity. In San Antonio, for example, club members snubbed Laura Krey's highly publicized romance, . . . and Tell of Time, preferred Jonathan Daniels' sober criticism, A Southerner Discovers the South. In Omaha, clubwomen feel that publishers pay too much attention to Manhattan opinion, not enough to the more spiritual interests of Midwesterners. But the major complaint of women's literary clubs throughout the U. S. is that...
...TELL OF TIME-Laura Krey- Houghton Mifflin...
...TELL OF TIME-Laura Krey- Houghton Mifflin...
...blue-eyed Cavin Darcy, heir to a big Texas cotton plantation, goes home with a Georgia bride, immediately becomes a leading Ku Klux Klan guerrilla and politician in the sacred cause of States' Rights. The main story covers the years when Reconstruction violence is at its height. Author Krey's historical background (from the planters' viewpoint) is well informed. But Cavin's leading part is woodenly dramatized. Although he rides with the Klan, is away for weeks on secret political missions, the reader catches him only when he has returned to the plantation and talks with...