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...magazines, notably the Satevepost. A man who seldom has to raise his head from the typewriter once he begins a story, Kelland can count on a steady out put of 10,000 words a week, working mornings only. This is enough to give the Post one installment of a serial and to give Kelland, at going rates, some $2,000. That leaves the rest of the day for golf, conversation and politics (since 1940, Author Kelland has been Republican National Committeeman for Arizona...
...Bricker amendment serial ran on and on, and Georgia's veteran Democratic Senator Walter George was fed up. When the White House turned down his substitute amendment (TIME, Feb. 8), George rumbled: "There is no hope for compromise now." He took his proposal to the Senate floor and pressed for a vote. But in the U.S. Senate last week, patience was a necessary virtue-and Walter George would have to wait until a few more chapters ran their course. Among last week's episodes...
...terraces of the native quarter. Occasionally, however, the emotional implications of both setting and plot become cloying. A scene in which a fat hag tearfully recalls her past success on the stage turns maudlin, while the murder of an informer has all the qualities of an old time serial...
Meanwhile, the Uppsala faculty was after its machine. Instead of returning the Halda with new type, Helander bought another and sent it along. Though the serial number was similar, the porter noticed the difference and called it to the attention of the dean, who asked Helander for the original. Why the substitution? He did not want the dean to know he had broken the machine, Helander said...
...substitute Halda, the clerk who sold it to Helander reported that the bishop had quite a time selecting it, examining serial numbers and comparing the typing with that on a piece of paper he had brought with him. He also gave his name as "Georg Arvidsson from Sodertalje." Helander's explanation for the assumed name: he was shy by nature, and anyway, "we human beings don't all act like rational machines...