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While in prison he wrote The Drinker, camouflaging the book by strewing its sentences through a bulky nonsense novel. Unscrambled after Fallada's death in 1947, this novel adds little to his reputation, but its suspiciously autobiographical scent and its candid odor of damnation suggest the careful note-taking of a house guest in Hell...
...much about elephants in the raw as anybody living. In the '30s, Animal Trader Carlo Hagenbeck sent him out to kidnap a few calves from the great herds which still roam the noxious swamps around Lake Chad, in North Central Africa. He lived for four years within scent of elephants -"I became an elephant myself." In Komoonl (Berberi dialect for elephant) he tells what it was like. Author Oberjohann is no scientist; some of his conclusions about the big animals will strain the faith of stay-at-homes. But he has written one of the most absorbing adventure stories...
London's gossips were hot on the scent of a royal snub. "You notice the Duke of Gloucester wasn't there," said one. "And there wasn't a single member of the royal family in the wedding picture," added another, "except, of course, the Princess Royal, and she had to be-being the groom's mother." "Margaret didn't even bother to wear a new dress," sniffed a third, pointing out (correctly) that the Princess' grey lace had made its debut at Ascot a month before...
Eliot is no stranger to the Harvard scent. As recently as three years ago he gave a series of lectures in Sanders Theatre on the poet in the modern age. In the early 30's he was for one year the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
Fragrant Jewelry. Scented synthetic pearls are being market tested in Sandefjord, Norway by Chemist Joseph Shott and Businessman Olav Edlund. The pearls, which are made from herring scales, are infused with perfume, and the scent lasts three years. Probable retail price in U.S. for a string...