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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shaped like an S, the Thames course gives the shell on the Surrey side the advantage at the start but, to win, it must be at least three lengths ahead at Hammersmith Bridge where the shell on the Middlesex side takes the inner lane until the race is over. When last week, instead of being ahead at Hammersmith, Cambridge was amazingly a few feet behind, spectators on the banks knew how the race must end. For a few lengths, Cambridge's U. S. coxswain, Hunter, and Oxford's Merifield-replacing 56-lb. Hart Massey who was so minute...
...from absolute flatness. In that case the throw would have been an inch longer or shorter, depending on whether it was downhill or uphill. The iron ball's trajectory is such that it hits the ground at an angle of about 45°, so that the deviation in length is about equal to the irregularity of surface level...
...boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...
...readers have lately had their work cut out for them. Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse, Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind have all been of approximately 1,000-page length. Last week Meyer Levin's The Old Bunch (964 pages) gave wrist-weary readers another hefty handful. Aside from actual weight, however, The Old Bunch has less in common with its swollen sisters than with such half-starved gutter rats as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan. Realism of the cheapest dye, Author Levin's tale...
Last week Edmund Pearson, who specializes in writing up famed U. S. murder cases, published a full-length dissection of the Lizzie Borden mystery, complete with photographs of the victims, plans of the house, rescript of the trial and inquest testimony. Author Pearson was careful not to bring in a verdict, or at least not to say it out loud; but he obviously thought Lizzie Borden was lucky, not innocent...