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...plot is simple. It shows the family life of Frank Gibbons (Robert Newton), his wife Ethel (Celia Johnson) and their three children. Vi (Eileen Erskine), a docile creature, gives little trouble. She marries a young pinko, but quickly domesticates him. Reg (John Blythe), a charming, rather irresponsible boy, messes about on the left side of the general strike but marries and turns out well in the end. Then he is killed in an auto wreck. Queenie (Kay Walsh) is the real problem. A spirited, rebellious girl, with ideas above her class, she runs off with a married man and suffers...
...Freshman nine, rained out of its last scheduled game with Governor Dummer, meets Boston Latin School, while the Jayvee nine, which lost its only previous start to the Yardlings, will attempt to get off on the right foot against Newton Junior College...
THREE CAME HOME (317 pp.)-Agnes Newton Keith-Little, Brown...
When the Japanese moved into North Borneo in January 1942, the British colony in Sandakan got its orders: "Meet the enemy, resist passively, do not cooperate. We cannot defend you. Goodbye!" Among the 80 men, women & children was Agnes Newton Keith, U.S. author whose Atlantic Monthly $5,000 prizewinning Land Below the Wind had made Borneo seem like a grim, if fascinating, place for so genteel a lady (TIME, Nov. 19, 1939). She had decided to stick it out with her two-year-old son and her British husband, who was North Borneo's Director of Agriculture. Three Came...
...Massachusetts men to receive a second fellowship was composer Harold Shapero '41 of Newton Center...