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WINDS, BLOW GENTLY - Ronald Kirkbridge- Fell ($2.50). A family of Pennsylvania Quakers move to South Carolina, where Father Jordan's neighbors grin at his "book farming," scowl at the high wages he pays his Negroes. Gay, charming, occasionally sexy tale of farm life with social overtones...
...Scowling and uncomfortable - as he has had reason to be since he gave the Brazilian press its freedom last fortnight-the longtime (4-year) dictator entered the room. As flashbulbs popped and movie cameras whirred, the well-publicized Vargas grin erased the scowl. Vargas, in answer to persistent queries, 1) said elections would be held "soon", 2) evaded saying whether he would be a candidate by hinting at the possibility of a "serene and tranquil" third name acceptable to all, 3) guaranteed that "freedom of the press [but not necessarily of radio] will be wholly maintained," 4) asserted that Soviet...
Kingpin. Kenesaw Mountain Landis almost always wore a scowl, never pulled a punch. When he became the $42,500-a-year kingpin of organized baseball in 1920, the game reeked of the Black Sox scandal. He promptly decreed that the eight Chicago players involved, although acquitted by a civil court, be barred from the game for life. From that solid beginning, he ruled supreme...
...This means we cannot act as quickly as you can, but when a direction is set, we all act together..." Then the invaders moved into the Mayor's house. Among them were Lieutenants Prackle and Tonder. Prackle was "a dancing-partner, a gay young man who nevertheless could scowl like the Leader, could brood like the Leader. He hated degenerate art and had destroyed several canvases with his own hands." Tonder was "a bitter poet who dreamed of perfect, ideal love of elevated young men for poor girls. ... He longed for death on the battlefield. . . . He even...
Aides of John L. Lewis pulled down the sign and erased the lettering. At 9:50 a.m. John Lewis arrived, bull shoulders hunched, and clumped inside. There he fixed waiting newsmen with his scowl. Would Mr. Lewis discuss his promise to resign as C. I. 0. head if Roosevelt were reelected? Labor's most enigmatic leader good-naturedly brushed the question aside...