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...PINKERTON FINDS A BODY-David Frome-Farrar & Rim hart ($2). Shy Welshman Pinkerton goes trustingly about Oxford; finds himself suspected of murder. Rescued by Yard's Inspector Bull, Pinkerton reveals the necessary clue...
Chase National Bank was paying $75 per day for the private car, plus railroad fares for 15 persons, in order that its top executives might make a month-long swing around the rim...
...saucers, ten dozen bouillon cups & saucers, not to mention oyster plates, oatmeal bowls, ramekins, etc.-1,720 pieces for $9,301.20, delivered at the White House. This, the first full dinner set ordered for the White House since Wilson's day, will be cream-colored Lenox china, with rims of gold, a cobalt blue band bearing 48 stars, roses and feathers (from the Roosevelt coat of arms), and the President's seal on the rim. Delivery is promised in time for the Cabinet dinner...
Most of his story is concerned with his excitingly sensible struggles against the traditional, noble boobery of muddled old England. Now that it is safely over, he admits it was a close shave. "Reckless and unintelligent handling brought us almost to the rim of catastrophe ... we were saved largely by the incredible folly of our foes." The thing that nearly got England down, says Lloyd George, was the submarine campaign. He implies that if the Admiralty had had their way, by June, 1917, England, and consequently the Allies, would have been spurlos versenkt. The Admiralty wanted more destroyers...
...which many of his admirers consider the greatest of his great work.* Milles modeled an Orpheus descending from Heaven, his lyre resting on his left shoulder, his right hand plucking its invisible strings. Directly beneath Orpheus a stylized Cerberus is about to doze off into careless sleep. Around the rim of the fountain nude figures are arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very young girl in her rapture drops a flower. More mature is a girl who lifts her hands in surprise, turns her head to hear whence the music comes. A third girl...