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...sometimes uncomfortably hot and mosquitoey in summer. But Bermudians insist that the average temperature does not vary 20° the year round, that the climate is far more equable than any place in the world. Its greatest advantage over Nassau as a U. S. resort: it is 20 hr. nearer New York. Venerable is the Crown Colony of Bermuda. It is not one island but a close group of some 300 forming a sort of fishhook about 14 mi. long. The islands were discovered in the 15th Century by one Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard who had the misfortune...
...Canada, made the challenging announcement in Manhattan. "Within 30 days," said he in crisp English, "we will lay at Saint Nazaire the keel of a liner larger, and also faster, than any ever built before. . . . She will be more than 1,000 feet long, nearer in fact to 1,100 feet. . . .* In her motive power she will follow a comparatively new line, first laid down by the United States Navy and later followed by the French-namely, turbo-electric drive. "Steam from her 30 boilers will drive turbines directly coupled to electric generators. Electric motors supplied with current from...
...Author. Ben Hecht writes with violence but without bad temper. Consequently his forceful delineations of character carry weight even when they are brutally offensive. Jo Boshere will leave few readers without some fellow-feeling. Hecht's dialog is nearer real life than most authors dare go. Ben Hecht was a small, dark, demoniac member of the Chicago literary circle that gave the U. S. such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg. Big-eyed, thick-lipped, baldish, he looks Mediterranean rather than Jewish. With Charles MacArthur (husband of Actress Helen Hayes) he wrote the Broadway smash...
...Author. Maxwell Bodenheim, 35, blond, squarish, medium-sized, is Jewish but looks Teutonic. He is married and lives on Long Island, but keeps his domicile a secret. As a writer Bodenheim is of the same school as unheavenly literary twin Ben Hecht, but nearer the foot of the class. His poetry is on a par with his prose. Other books: Replenishing Jessica, Ninth Avenue, Georgie...
...shelves appeared last night shortly before supper upon each of the two dining-room pillars at Dunster House. One, nearer the door, will eventually support the memorable football which inaugurated the inter-House football series, on Friday, November 21, and which the Dunster House players bore to a glorious victory of seven to six over the Lowellians. The other will bear the silver loving cup which is to be engraved with the names of the winners of the annual Dunster squash tournament. Arrangements are to be made for the placing of other trophies that the members of Dunster House...