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Within the week, the American Legion's hard-driving National Commander Warren H. Atherton had presented Congress with a new "omnibus" veterans' bill, appeared twice before Congressional committees, hired a public-relations firm to publicize his bill, had a 45-minute chat with Franklin Roosevelt at the White House...
...exceptionally well-chosen omnibus of short spine-tinglers, with an urbane and knowledgeable introductory essay...
...Times, "has received such a prodigious mass of letters on the occasion of his wife's death that though he has read and valued them all, any attempt to acknowledge them individually is beyond his power. He therefore begs his friends and hers to be content with this omnibus reply and to assure them that a very happy ending to a very long life has left him awaiting his own turn in perfect serenity...
...comic Dickensian tales of London dockside life, beaky, grey-thatched Jacobs drew on boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey...
...FOURTH MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Six mystery novellas by such practiced hands as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mignon Eberhart, Hugh Pentecost, and one newcomer, Dana Lyon, who turns in the best item, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead. An omnibus book that is right up to its predecessors in quality and quantity...