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...well as being one of the noisiest and most crowded in the world, the New York subway system is also the safest. Over its 230 miles of track bed, 8,755 electric trains clatter daily on split-minute headway, carrying well over 1,500,000,000 passengers every year, more than three times as many as ride each year on all the big U. S. railroads put together. Until this week no subway passenger had lost his life in a train crash in more than two years. Then one morning a closing car door caught a woman's hand...
...number of phenomena which are rarely mentioned in scientific books-Fred Astaire and Jessie Matthews, the chain-letter craze, the Big Apple, Fashion Stylist Adrian of Hollywood, Variety. He turns a coldly skeptical and sardonic eye on the standard apologies for capitalism, also on the ideologies of democracy ("the safest votes, as every practical politician knows, are those which have been 'bought' "). But neither does he show any enthusiasm for leftist or rightist panaceas. "Although the fascists would be the first to deny it," cracks Dr. La Piere, "the anticapitalistic aspects of fascist ideology are closely related...
Like House of All Nations, The World Is Mine is a novel with an unpredictable future. Safest bet is that a few readers will enjoy its spotty but brilliant literary coloring, while the rest get the effect of a faulty spectrum that whirls out of a bad shade...
...Rinehart with her usual smooth craftsmanship and deft handling of a large cast tells how the indiscretions of a beautiful divorcee lead to three murders in a New England summer colony. Rivals may turn out more striking stories, but the suspense and atmosphere of The Wall make it the safest bet of the month for readers who want mysteries of general rather than specialized interest...
...Safest, nearest spot for convicts to head for is British-owned Trinidad, 600 miles from St. Laurent, where escaped convicts are now fed, hospitalized, sent on their way, treated like shipwrecked mariners. Althougn Britain and France have signed an extradition treaty, Trinidad Judge Charles Greenidge virtually nullified the treaty for Devil's Island criminals by freeing 13 escaped convicts on the almost impossible-to-fulfill technicality that extradition papers with full descriptions had to originate from the men's place of conviction, that French officials wanting to extradite men had to present strict evidence of where the crime...