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Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria, set out incognito last week on a royal vacation which took him through Italy and on to a quiet Swiss resort. The Tsar is 32. During the two decades of his adolescence and manhood there have been persistent rumors that he may marry. Why not? Last week rumors ran that he is "about to espouse a Swedish princess" (Astrid, 25, Martha, 20, and Ingrid, 16, are all available); and of course he might marry, said the rumormongers, Princess Giovanna, 19, but surely not Princess Maria, 12, of Italy. The press of the world has grown...
...action; bursts of mulish power. Abner Teeftallow, a brawny illiterate of 18, leaves the poor-farm where his mother died insane, to labor as a teamster on a traction project of Lanesburg's genius and potentate, Railroad Jones. From his fellow teamsters he learns the technique of hillbilly manhood- gulping moonshine, shooting craps Saturday nights in a wood, toting an automatic pistol for protection on "rambling" (courting) nights and for display at prayer-meetings. He reveres the four local gods- public opinion, money, wit and a glowering celestial Patriarch who, seeing all, likes little...
...American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood...
...peons, the old gods stir, the Aztec gods. Quetzalcoatl, the bird-snake, is come again from "the cave which is called the Dark Eye, behind the sun," where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night at hushed circles where a drum is beaten and the men sit naked to the waist chanting inward liturgies...
...learning in the current Harper's, he forsakes them all as inadequate and turns to an appreciation of learning based on the development of four qualities in youth--vitality, courage, sensitiveness and intelligence--four characteristics which he believes are the necessary fundaments on which to build the best manhood. And he would cut all educational systems to fit those patterns. If education does not make for the vitality which predicates that pleasant existance which is devoid of envy. If it does not make for that courage which allows a man to understand his world, if it does not further...