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...NEITHER PEST NOR PURITAN-E. Berry Wall-Dial Press...
During the last war the League halted the spread of a pest epidemic emanating from Poland outward over Europe by rushing doctors, nurses, and medical supplies to the stricken areas. But now there is no organization internationally powerful enough to perform the same service...
...NEITHER PEST NOR PURITAN-E. Berry Wall-Dial Press...
...recollections for posterity, partly to fill the void left by the death of his wife (to whom he was devoted), Berry Wall, 77, began to write (entirely from memory) his memoirs. When he died last spring they were still unpublished. This week they were published under the title Neither Pest Nor Puritan. To read them was like reading a Proustian novel written not by Proust, but by one of his vacuous, arrogant characters...
Soothsayer Characky, a Monessen (Pa.) moving picture operator and a baseball manager's perennial pest, had made too many false forecasts in years gone...