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Through the dingy parts of London, beloved of authors and others, pleasantly rambles this latest novel of J. B. Priestley. Characters and plot are both unexciting and vaguely familiar, but their simplicity is followed out with such a happy fertility of notions that one spends hour upon hour completely pleased. There is much reminiscent of Dombeys and Forsytes, but this book is content with a more humble standard of artistic verity, and if for that reason the thousands are less appreciative, the tens of thousands will be the more delighted...
...first came into prominence when he was made Alien Property Custodian. One of his acts was to confiscate German chemical patents and sell them to the Chemical Foundation (of which he is head) for the fostering of the U. S. chemical industry. In 1919 he was awarded the Priestley medal "for being the greatest lay patron of chemistry." Later, criminal proceedings were started against him for the sale of the German patents, but he was exonerated...
...Author. H. M. ("Tommy") Tomlinson, 56, is described by a friend (J. B. Priestley) as looking at first glance "like a rather hard-bitten city clerk. At a second glance, he looks like a gnome. . . ." He was born in London's East End, among the docks; was a sailor, newspaper correspondent, war correspondent, literary editor of the London Nation and Athenaeum. Other books: The Sea and the Jungle, Old Junk, Under the Red Ensign, Gallions Reach...
...only previous recipients of the Priestley Medal have been the late President Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins and the late Provost Edgar Fahs Smith of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Garvan could not travel to Minneapolis from Manhattan because "three years ago I broke down. Some say that breakdown was the result of my endeavors to establish independent and sufficient chemical education, chemical research and chemical industries in America. . . ." This apology and the rest of Mr. Garvan's "random thoughts of a lay chemist," Professor Julius Oscar Stieglitz of the University of Chicago read for absent Mr. Garvan...
President Hoover's response was a succinct telegram: "Glad to join in congratulating Mr. Garvan and the American Chemical Society on the Priestley Medal award...