Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Onto the desks of the nation's law schools and bar associations dropped a novel legal announcement last week. Distinguished, aging Harvard Law School Professors Joseph Henry Beale (Conflict of Laws) and Samuel Williston (Contracts) had recorded significant law lectures before the sound camera. In each film as introducer of the subject and lecturer appears Harvard Law School's newsworthy Professor Felix Frankfurter (Administrative Law), Vienna-born intimate of President Roosevelt, sponsor of such New Deal legalights as SEChairman James McCauley Landis, 37, who returns to Cambridge as Harvard's law dean in September. Professor Beale...
When British readers discovered last year that "Susan Goodyear" was the wife of the Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, successor to Dean Inge of London's St. Paul's Cathedral and former Dean of Exeter Cathedral, Cathedral Close, a first novel which up to then had won only critics' praise, leaped suddenly into the best-seller class. The reason for this sudden popularity was a curiosity to find out how much truth lay behind the scandal which forms the theme of the story, and if the scandal occurred at Exeter. U. S. readers, while immune to this...
VICTORIA FOUR-THIRTY-Cecil Roberts -Macmillan ($2.50). Quiet, almost inaudible novel about a dozen passengers who leave London to make the Orient Express and all keep their seats. Nearest thing to a connecting link between them is the car couplings...
...MAKING or A HERO-Nicholas Ostrovski-Dutton ($2.50). Fast-moving autobiographical novel about a Red cavalryman in the Russian civil war; the author dictated the story while blind and paralyzed, died soon after...
...yeoman's job for all of us" (see p. 9). With total assets of $2,400,000, Birdsboro employs 800 men, had gross sales of $3,000,000 last year, net income of $233,000. The stock of this company, whose story would make a perfect Joseph Hergesheimer novel, has always been closely held but last week Birdsboro was granted permission to list 200,000 shares of no-par common on the New York Curb Exchange. Reasons: to provide extra working capital, pay off bank loans, redeem outstanding preferred stock, establish a price for the common stock...