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...AFFAIR AT THE BOAT LANDING- A. B. Cunningham-Dutton ($2). The mother wit of Kentucky Sheriff Jess Roden here solves the killing of a farmer and a beauteous halfwit. The story is noteworthy for color and character, as well as for logical detection...
Died. Rev. Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel, 73, vicar of Thaxted, England, whose crusty championship of Marxian socialism had made his modest Essex vicarage a center of political and ecclesiastical turmoil since his appointment in 1910. Known as "the Red vicar," Father Noel once flew a red flag from his steeple, during World War I hung the green banner of the Irish Sinn Fein party near his pulpit, refused to permit the British Union Jack in his church...
...handsome, athletic Henry Wisdom ("Tex") Roden, who took over as president when Founder Clapp sold out, this growth was a triumph. Despite the competition of big firms such as H. J. Heinz Co., Beechnut, Libby, McNeill & Libby, Inc., his firm claims 25% of the industry's yearly $15,000,000 gross business, runs a dead heat with Heinz for first place. Some 35% of U. S. babies feed on prepared baby food. Fields as yet untapped (aside from the rest of the infants) are the stomach ailment trade and oldsters who may need a strained food line of their...
...second half From Vienna did much better. There was fun in a sketch of a refugee learning English in Six Easy Lessons; fun and charm alike in Little Ballerina, where dainty Ilia Roden plays a daydreaming ballet pupil who quits her routine to imitate Mary Wigman, Pavlova, an Aquacade swimmer. And the finale was a potpourri of those gay, nostalgic Viennese tunes to which all the world has waltzed and to which it is impossible to goose-step...
...Carl Roden was brought from his father's Kansas City grocery to Chicago in the '703, got his first job as a $5-a-week page in the Library in 1886, when it occupied the third floor of the old City Hall. Today, from his marble-walled office in the Library building on the gusty lake front, Librarian Roden watches over 45 branches, serves 12,000,000 readers a year. In 1931 he ran the biggest circulating municipal library in the U. S., with 16,000,000 issues, but with declining appro priations Chicago's has yielded...