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...Central Park. Author Calmer has broken up this Manhattan idyll with four long interludes that are made up of snapshots of city life: quarreling tenement dwellers, lovers lying on the roof in the heat, card players in a midtown hotel, a pair of middle-aged Lesbians quarreling, a sailor picking up a girl. Main trouble with When Night Descends is that the brief snapshots break up the central story, are usually more interesting and original than the one they interrupt...
...earned $6. In 1878 she won a debut and a four-year contract at Dresden, was chosen by Cosima Wagner to sing at Bayreuth before she was brought to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company in 1898. During the War her son August died as a German sailor, her sons Henry and George Washington enlisted with the U. S. Navy. She had signed a three-year movie contract when she was taken...
...Superior. As it was, when he graduated from high school he wangled an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy, and last week President Roosevelt announced that, effective Jan. 1 Admiral William Daniel Leahy, Commander of the Battle Force, will be Chief of Naval Operations, No. 1 U. S. sailor. He will succeed Admiral William Harrison Standley, who reaches the compulsory retirement age (64) next month...
...that Admiral Leahy is stepping up to no soft job. After energetic Admiral Standley, who was two classes ahead of his successor at Annapolis, took over the office in 1933, he widened its scope considerably, became the Navy's No. 1 diplomat as well as its No. 1 sailor. He was a delegate to the London Disarmament Conference and the London Naval Conference. He has had to serve as Acting Secretary of the Navy during Secretary Swanson's long illness. When funds were needed for President Roosevelt's big naval program, he appeared before Congressional committees, wheedled...
GLORY'S CHILDREN-Hilton Brown- Knopf ($2.50). Less like The Forsyte Saga than a thick family album, the story of a hard-headed Scotch ex-sailor who founds an industry and a large family in India, neither of which turns out well...