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...years ago Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote a moving, nostalgic novel of the Florida scrub, South Moon Under, in which proud and good-natured backwoodsmen were pictured retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with the same region, but pictures along with the natives a queer group, composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways...
Another amusing picture is a water color portraying the religious rite of washing a white elephant. The animal is way out of proportion, and two attendants can be seen standing between its ears, scrub-brushes in hand...
Life on the Jayvee should be a little better than in previous years, for the Harlow New Deal has promised from the start that it is going to give an unusual amount of attention to the performances turned in by the men on the scrub teams. This will be one of the special functions of the new coach-at-large, Jimmy Dunn. He will try to keep track of all of the teams at once, with the idea of giving a Jayvee instant promotion to the Varsity if he begins to look like the answer to Harlow's needs...
...passed the time writing his experiences for the New York Times. Sewage and sea water had by this time risen knee-deep in the staterooms. When it had spread its stench and filth into the public rooms, a band of women got down on their knees, tried to scrub the floors. Passenger hero turned out to be Henry Treger. National Broadcasting Co. engineer, who climbed the stack to help re-rig the radio antenna. "I never expected to get down safely," he recalled. ''The wind fairly burned...
...Clipper reached Midway in 9 hr. 13 min., stayed there two days before returning to Honolulu. On Sand Island, largest of the three coral atolls of the Midway Group, a small village hummed where once had been little but sandy scrub, jungle, coral rock. Trees, imported from Hawaii by the advance construction crew on the steamer North Haven, gave the place a look of lush tropical elegance...