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...twenty first in his series and includes as distinguished a selection of tales as he has ever edited. Notable this year more than in the past is a proportionate preponderance of young writers who have already made names for themselves. Sally Benson contributes a whimsical piece called "The Overcoat," and our friends Erskine Caldwell, Morley Callaghan, Paul Horgan, Allan Seager, William Saroyan and Thomas Wolfe all come in once apiece. None of this galaxy has written what this reviewer considers the piece de resistance of the collection, however, which is a story called "The Party Next Door" by Ernost Brace...
...whiskey distilling, is Seagram. Horses owned by the late Joseph Seagram and his son Edward Frowde Seagram, whose stables are not far from his mash vats at Waterloo, Ontario, had won the King's Plate 19 times before. Last week, paunchy little Distiller Seagram, dressed in a funereal overcoat, a gay, grey topper, watched his horses win the first and third races on the program before his black and yellow silks were carried to the post for the King's Plate by two fillies named Sally Fuller and Gay Sympathy. A few minutes later, when Sally Fuller...
Outside it was still pitch dark. Bowen Tufts slipped into his overcoat, put on his hat, stepped out of doors. He walked across the lawn and entered the garage, shutting the doors tight behind him. When the motor of his Packard sedan settled down to a quiet hum, he climbed out of the front seat, walked to the rear of the garage. Carefully taking off his hat, he lay down on the cement floor, a foot from the purring exhaust. At seven in the morning the maid found the motor still running. Bowen Tufts was dead...
...gent's black overcoat, with full belt, size 37, marked Webber and Hilbron...
...State of Maryland, the city of Baltimore, the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., became a most imperious gentleman. At one time he owned more stock in the B. & O. than any other human being. But he never traveled far from Baltimore. He walked whenever he could, never wore an overcoat, had difficulty sleeping...