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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...PROGRESS OF JULIUS-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Julius Levy was bred in the gutters of a Paris suburb, son of a Jew huckster who choked his buxom wife to death one night when Julius found her in bed with the landlord's son. Julius and his father straggled off to Algiers. There, orphaned, Julius learned to steal, snuggle in the arms of a Negro laundress, consider the English a "race of fools." Presently, accompanied by a 14-year-old prostitute disguised as a boy, Julius was en route to London. In London he followed the success story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortune Making | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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