Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Nine years ago Kenneth Roberts was known to Saturday Evening Post readers as a crack correspondent, a downright, factual, lively reporter of events in the U. S., Europe, the Orient. But Kenneth Roberts was not content to be one of the best U. S. journalists. For years he had had an Idea, which crystallized into an Ambition. The Idea: that historians are mainly knaves or fools, have falsified the facts. The Ambition: to become America's best historical novelist. For years he had been "mousing around for something to write that would have my own sort of people...
...Langdon, heartbroken, sailed for London to learn more about painting. There,.four years later, he met Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will-o'-the-wisp short cut to the Orient; Parliament had a standing reward of ?20,000 to the lucky discoverer. By personality and pull Rogers got the post of Governor of Michilimackinac (now Mackinaw, Mich.), went off to his new adventure in high feather, taking Langdon along to paint his fill of Indians. Still-beauteous Elizabeth went...
...hours after he went to Peiping's Union Medical College Hospital he was paralyzed from the neck down. He could not move a muscle to breathe and would have suffocated in a few minutes had the hospital not had one of the few artificial respirators in the Orient...
...This program should include research into the further possibilities for the use of college men in New England and make the findings known to all concerned; (4) College men can do more to orient the boys to the tasks ahead of them...