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...FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY-Victor Canning-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in the back, he is stolen with the car. His subsequent adventures remind readers of J. B. Priestley's hearty-humorous The Good Companions...
...made him quite an aristocrat, but, thank God, we haven't been able to detect any signs of a Harvard accent on him yet. The last mule the Army brought to Cambridge was a draft animal used for dumping the garbage at Fort Banks, but the megaphones seemed to remind him of the garbage cans, and he so persistently kept backing into them to be hitched up that we had to shoot him. But Pete's three years have taught him better than that...
...have refrained for fear that I might offend Mr. Cherington's cherished good taste and that I might discourage unfairly what in many ways is a laudable, if foolish and unnecessary attempt to resolve opinion at Harvard. I hope I shall not be accused of peevishness, if I remind Mr. Cherington of the fifth and sixth lines of the Dies irae...
Both its House of Deputies and House of Bishops had passed resolutions to send a "suitable message" to the President. But General Convention adjourned and it took a newshawk to remind Presiding Bishop Perry of the Bishops and Ze Barney Thorne Phillips of the Deputies that nothing had been done about the message. Dr. Phillips turned to Dr. Perry: "I'll write it and you sign it." "No," countered the Presiding Bishop, "you sign it and I'll write it." "No," parried Deputy Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate, "You sign it. I'm too close...
...allies of France, Rumania and Czechoslovakia also sent bombing planes, partly to ensure the safety of Rumanian King Carol and Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Eduard Benes, partly to remind grief-stricken Jugoslavia of her treaty ties with France. So impressed was the Jugoslav Government that the official last words of King Alexander were amended last week from "Protect Jugoslavia!" to "Protect Jugoslavia and cherish our friendship with France"-no mean mouthful for a man dying of hemorrhage provoked by bullets...