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...London society; the young aviator who just misses loving his machine more than his woman; Martha, earthy female; Patrick, vivid sensualist in restless search of the meaning of life. By ordinary standards, their story is howling melodrama, but in a setting of cosmic proportions it fades to the decent outlines of engrossing human narrative. Lost in the eerie privacy of a London fog, Ann and Patrick recognize that their life-long friendship is love, the real thing. Lest they shatter the life of Ann's gentle husband, Peregrine, Patrick escapes to the Midlands there to conduct relief among striking...
...McKenny, publisher of the Macon News, had waited there in his parked car to eye the wet Tammany candidate. Publisher McKenny's News was the largest and perhaps bitterest anti-Smith organ in Georgia. As the Smith car vanished, Publisher McKenny, who is a Kiwanian, a Methodist and a life-long prohibitionist, boasted...
...hell for him. He is given nourishing food while his supply of drug is gradually tapered off. Many a fiend, however, goes through the ordeal. He knows, until he is too poisoned, too besotted, that treatment is fairly quickly over. Its temporary sweaty terrors are preferable to the life-long degradation before...
...newspaper cartoons. Mr. Woodin plays little golf; seldom uses his costly yacht. He is a graduate of Columbia (school of mines, 1890) and an Alpha Delta Phi, was Fuel Administrator in New York State during the coal strike of 1922, ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1898 and though a life-long Republican, supported Governor Smith. He is 60. Believing strongly in self-control, he stops smoking one month each year to demonstrate that he is no tobacco-slave...
...immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast research, in his shallow, swift running style. He regards her misdemeanors with a sympa- thetic eye, is careful to point out that her liaisons often cooled to life-long friendships. Well he describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded by the Queen of France, a visit from the extraordinary Queen Christina of Sweden. The crowd of shadowy gallants that at all times surrounded her are dexterously manipulated. Ninon's long friendship with...