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...SECOND SPRING-Janet Beith- Stokes ($2.50). Next to the Nobel Prize ($39,942) the Stokes $20,000 award, open to novelists of all nations, was the plumpest plum on the literary tree this year. When Publisher Stokes dangled this golden fruit before the world's nose, more than 600 writers took a bite at it. As in a newspaper fairy tale, the unanimous choice of the judges was No Second Spring, first published novel of an unknown 28-year-old English girl. Some readers may think the book a queer selection for these days, but many may find...
...plumpest diplomatic plum, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed last week about to drop into the dapper lap of Robert Worth Bingham, 61, wealthy Louisville, Ky. publisher. Born and educated in North Carolina, Mr. Bingham crossed the mountains to Kentucky to seek fame & fortune. He practiced law, served as Mayor of Louisville (1907), sat on the bench, organized long leaf tobacco growers into cooperatives. After his first wife was killed in an automobile accident, he married the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler who made $70,000,000 developing the Florida East Coast. In 1917 she died...
...They knew only that a man-eating Papuan tribe had raided the village of Atoika and, after an all night battle, sat down as victors to a banquet at which they ate not only slaughtered enemies but fallen members of their own attacking party. Then, having rounded up the plumpest, tenderest women of Atoika, the victors loaded them with spoil, led them off to various cannibal villages in the interior...