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COSSACK GIRL - Marina Yurlova - Macaulay...
...Though Marina Yurlova now dances for her suppers on the concert stage she once did a more dangerous pas seul. Readers of Cossack Girl may find it easier to read than believe, but Publisher Macaulay insists Authoress Yurlova's hairbreadth narrative is "authenticated by documents.'' No less credible than Joan Lowell's notorious Cradle of the Deep, Cossack Girl is a thriller of the same order, but better written...
...between whirlpools. But revolutionary Moscow is no place for a spectator: he dodges bullets, gets beaten up on the street, finally leaves Moscow and his whimpering wife for the country. In a provincial town he has an affair with the singer Duniasha, then becomes legal agent for the beauteous Marina, high priestess of a mystic sect. Physically as well as emotionally stingy, he is afraid for a while that Marina may take him as her lover; finally he is afraid that he wants her to. But Marina has more sense. She tells him: "You are too clever, incorrigibly...
Democratic Morrow. Born (1878) and bred in Tennessee where he still lives at Tullahoma, Mr. Davis comes from a long line of Democrats. One of his five brothers, Ewin, is now the "lame duck" chairman of the House Merchant Marina, Radio & Fisheries committee. In 1902 Norman Davis went to Cuba, where in 15 years he made his fortune in banking, construction, dredging. His Havana partner was Tillinghast I'Hommedieu Huston, onetime Colonel in the Army Engineers, onetime part-owner of the New York Yankees...
...fear the proposed trans-Bay bridges may increase commuting. Dwellings are 32% vacant in San Francisco. Rentals in the cheaper districts north of Market Street ("The Slot") run about $25 for a two-room apartment, a 10% reduction. Similar reductions prevail in the wooden, stucco-faced buildings on the Marina, where stood the be jeweled buildings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915). In the residential section rents are off about 20%. Hotel suites (for permanent guests) are down one-third...