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...college has added $2,500,000 to its endowment, acquired a majestic new administration building named Hetty Green Hall, a zoology laboratory, another co-operative dormitory and the beginnings of a physics & chemistry building which will be completed next autumn. All these are part of President Ellen Fitz Pendleton's longtime campaign to construct a handsome, Collegiate-Gothic "New Wellesley" out of the ashes of 1914. Now 70 and beginning her 23rd year as president, shy, deliberate, precise "Pres-Penn" intends to see the program through. She wants three more residence halls, an infirmary and additions to art building...
...solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when the only possible witness to the crime is found murdered also, a dull-witted police operator (Pat Pendleton) surmises that the inventor committed both crimes. While gayly consuming enormous quantities of whiskey and gin, Nick Charles chats with the inventor's mercenary wife, his pretty daughter, his neurotic son. an assortment of thugs, lawyers and policemen, suavely verifies his hunch that the inventor is entirely innocent...
Porter Robert Montgomery Letty Madge Evans Withington Ted Healy "Legs" Nat Pendleton A. Julian Larry Fine B. Julian Moe Howard C. Julian Jerry Howard...
...Visit With The Master" by Theodore Pratt is the most satisfactory short story in the anthology because the author has the faculty of building up a unique situation with a masterly touch of irony. George Pendleton is an idealistic young writer who emulates the style of the great master of literature, Alfred Pillsbury. He has received a most cordial invitation to visit Mr. Phillsbury, and as he approaches the villa of the master, he dreams of the pleasant conversations he will have with the master...
...surprised to find that the master is digging in a small pile of manure when he meets him; he is more surprised when the master tells him that Susette, the maid, is his latest passion. Pendleton's dreams become nebulous. He is hurt when the master bluntly informs him that his novel is worthless, hurt because he realizes the master speaks the truth. Theodore Pratt's story is one of the few pieces in the anthology which will hold your interest and which shows no signs of padding...