Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Husky Andy Szwedko, 32-year-old Pittsburgh steelworker: the National Public Links Golf Championship; defeating 22-year-old Phil Gordon, Oakland (Calif.) insurance clerk, in the final; 1 up; after 36 holes of see-sawing brilliance and blundering; before a gallery of 5,000; at Mt. Pleasant Park, Baltimore...
Thanks to ample supplies of Cooper's Oxford Marmalade, Lux and Epsom Salts he spent a pleasant six months going reasonably native at Bangangté, where leisurely, mild-mannered King N'jiké II gave up his own house to the visitor and retired with his 80-odd wives to the other end of the village. Author Egerton interviewed fortunetellers and sorcerers, attended dances, investigated charms, drank palm wine (it tasted like flat ginger ale), picked up stray bits of local lore. Sample: as fee, a Bangangté midwife is given the bananas on the tree where...
...COUNSELLOR-J. J. Connington-Little, Brown ($2). An English Voice of Experience hunts for a missing girl and stumbles into a pleasant and exhilarating murder case. Merits: a neatly involved plot; an engaging new sleuth (Mark Brand, "The Counsellor"). Fault: readers can beat the author to the solution...
DEATH DINES OUT-Theodora Du Bois -Houghton Mifflin ($2). Among a number of nice people summering at Jones Inlet near New York City, a surgeon-sleuth ferrets out a killer who uses poison at a dinner party. Merit: pleasant, painless and gossipy dialogue. Fault: a little too much dialogue about ladies' clothing...
...pleasant picture of dollars on relief was the annual report last fortnight of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Leo T. Crowley. FDIC's own figures looked good enough at first glance. In five years the corporation has had to pay out $21,000,000 to cover expenses and to make good average losses of 16% of the deposits of 252 insured banks that closed or were taken over. Meantime FDIC has taken in $167,400,000 ($124,200,000 of it from ½ of 1% assessments on bank deposits, $43,200,000 from its investments and profits). Result: FDIC...