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Pastmaster at exorcising goatish emanations from rural England's maids, meadows, men and mud, Author Powys sticks to his increasingly familiar incantation like a leech. As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar. Only one newcomer is in the book, Last Comer Death...
...Received the resignation of Pennsylvania's J. Russell Leech, who was appointed by President Hoover to be a member of the Board of Tax Appeals...
...taking meticulous care against cuts and bruises Professor Thomas F. Sanford of the University of California has lived for 65 years. Like the Princes of Spain, he is a hemophiliac. His blood does not clot. Death has been for him a leech against which he has ever been on guard. Last week he lowered his guard for the sake of a mortally risky operation on his bladder and prostate. Coincidentally he began to have his entire blood system washed out with blood from twelve one-time students of his English classes. Eventually he hopes-if Death does not parry precautions...
...Conn., J. L. Hymens, Jr., L. I., N. Y., C. C. Jamison, Mar Vista, Cal., T. K. Jenkins, Ravenna, Ohio, G. G. Johnson, Jr., Washington, D. C. J. Kaplan, Boston, W. H. Kerr, Dorchester, M. S. Knowles, Kelsey City, Fla., G. J. Lasinsky, Long Branch, N. J., V. T. Leech, Moore, Pa., W. R. Lessig, Jr., Laureldale, Pa., D. Levin, East Boston, E. P. Little, Worcester, A. B. Lord, Allston, R. A. McInich, Manchester, N. H., P. L. MacKendrick, Dorchester, H. E. Magnuson, Arlington, J. Maier, Royersford, Pa., W. Malenhaum, Boston, E. L. Marshall, So. Portland, Me., J. A. Martin...
...Ernst marshalled an attack upon the character of the Society. He summoned famed writers and artists to testify that the Society "could not tell the difference between filth and literature." Writer Carl Van Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond normal...