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...Birgitta, U. S.-owned tropical island, he settled down to the life of an industrious Reilly. David became great pals with Millionaire Julius Wack. St. Birgitta's leading resident, and very easily fell in love with his niece Anita, who had come for a rest and to ponder a divorce. Several exciting events disturbed their tropical romance: David nearly drowned trying to rescue a man he despised; Anita's husband shot and blinded himself. But a hurricane made all clear: Author Burt rings down a rosy curtain on his lovers and their island. The tale is entertaining...
Such a dramatic upheaval can be indeed pleasant to ponder over, but it does not seem in the least likely to occur. Some explanation for this may be that the Lowell regime was not as stuffy, narrow-minded, and conservative as the wiseacres tend to make out. President Lowell himself declared that he preferred to be called a conservative because he could then be as progressive as he like, and no one could object; As far as personal tastes are concerned, he was as well acquainted with the subway as Mr. Conant...
From England, where antiquarians ponder over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, Heart Burial* a new tome, reached the U. S. last week. The author, Charles Angell Bradford, concerns himself primarily with hearts given special burial in the London district. Besides that, he tries anthropologically to link the faded fad with the canopic burials of viscera in ancient Egypt...
...probably worthwhile for the summer school student, prone to behind-the-napkin whispering at the Union on the slowness of service and lack of desert-talent among the cook-force, to ponder on these early battles in the cause of wholesome, 100-percent edible eatables. The first head of the college, the wicked Mr. Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding...
...week's events brought Premier Daladier plenty besides Hitler to ponder. First there was the domestic situation. The existence of a French Premier, never too secure, becomes most critical at Budget time. France's budget, under consideration by the Senate for two weeks, comes up again for discussion by the Deputies this week. It cannot be balanced for 1953: as passed by the Senate last week it contained a deficit of $156,710,400. French Socialists under long-nosed Léon Blum served notice on the Radical-Socialist* Government of Premier Daladier that they would not support...