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...deaths and marriages taking place in the wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik van der Berg, and the main plot of the novel revolves around his harsh, hard-bitten figure: the conflict between his Messianic impulses and his hopeless infatuation for the luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with him, for largely through the bedeviled old man's mismanagement, the emigrants-now at the end of their trek and busily founding a new settlement-are caught...
Last Year's Hero. In Boston the state of professional football is still as low as in the days of Laundryman Marshall. Last year a half dozen enterprising sports promoters, with an eye on the luscious profits made by the National League clubs, organized a haphazard collection of teams ambitiously called the American League. Before the season ended the league dejectedly disbanded. This year hopeful sports promoters tried again. Most hopeful were a group of Bostonians, who got together a number of obscure ex-college football players, fished for the support of Boston's many Irishmen by calling...
...luscious and loud onetime social worker is Mme Chang Hsueh-liang, wife of the "Young Marshal" who recently kidnapped China's Dictator (TIME, Dec. 21). It finally seemed safe for her to return from abroad last week and back she came. Kidnapper Chang, having been sentenced to ten years, then pardoned but deprived of his civil rights for five years, had these rights restored to him last week by order of Kidnappee Chiang Kai-shek and Nanking wiseacres thought Chang would soon be War Minister...
Only possible hitch in the plans, it was stated by a highly dependable authority close to official sources, lies in the refusal of Radcliffe dieticians to guarantee Miss Temple three portions per diem of Cocomalt (trade advt.) and strained spinach a la Temple, i.e., with luscious slices of hard-boiled egg. Miss Temple, it was added, has already shown the proper Radcliffe spirit by agreeing to wear flat-heeled shoes, horn-rimmed glasses and, possibly, a ribbon in her hair...
Aside from the battleground of the Middle West, New York State with its forty-seven votes is the most luscious plum in the electoral pie, and Governor Lehman's record is one which should convince any thinking voter to "try try again" with the Republican ticket. For four long years, the Empire State's capital has been infested with a complete, though small-scale New Deal government. Lehman has made of the most powerful state in the union a mere pawn in the hands of his eccentric leader in Washington...