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Providing an excellent handbook of American and English short story, as well as a priceless volume for the traveler, Edward J. O'Brien's recently published collection entitled. "The Best Short Stories of 1937" is a book of unlimited appeal merely because every reader no matter how fastidious he is in his choice of lighter reading may find within its covers several stories which satisfy his tastes...
...featured is "Sophie Lang Goes West," an incredibly complicated mystery story about an (East) Indian who wants to lose a priceless diamond. The story deals with a reformed male crook and an unreformed female crook who succeed in falling in love with each other through their mutual efforts to keep just a plain crook from stealing the rock...
Lusty have been the wails of frustrated honors candidates who have sought entry to the bottomless caverns of Widener in search of the priceless riches entombed there. Stack privileges are so monopolized by instructors and graduate students that only a few of the coveted admission cards have trickled down to the mass of seniors. Thus the third estate remains unread...
...Mitch" had also secured priceless advertising for Ontario as a haven to which nervous U. S. capitalists might decide to move their plants. Second, many Ontarians believe that the aim of C. I. O. in their province is not only to organize General Motors but is also directed toward C. I. O.-izing Ontario's rich mines. It was in defense of these, they think, that "Mitch" tried to "git his fist in fust" at Oshawa. Finally, since Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, fearing to antagonize Labor, has frowned upon the strident demands of "Mitch" that...
Sirs: The April 5 copy of TIME which is my private, priceless knothole in the news-arid fence which keeps most of us "furriners" ignorant . . . just came through. Thanks...