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...thousands & thousands of U. S. novel readers Lawrenceville is still the harum-scarum little preparatory school of the 1890's about which Alumnus Owen Johnson wrote in The Varmint and Tin Tennessee Shad. Unforgettable are sue) redoubtable characters as Dink Stover Doc Mcnooder, The Prodigious Hickey Flash Condit, Turkey Reiter, The Triumphant Egghead-a lusty lot, forever up to highjinks, forever bedevilling their masters...
...glad to call his boys together to hear Crusader Clark's story ^that the Crusaders were going to start a Junior Division and had picked Lawrenceville to be, among 15,000 U. S. schools, the First Battalion. Whether or not the young gentlemen of Lawrenceville, where the Tennessee Shad once used beer for Welsh rabbits, were unanimously excited by Crusader Clark's earnest explanation of the need for repealing the 18th Amendment and for "strict control of the liquor traffic," the evening's results were 100%. Dr. Abbott formed the First Battalion by a method which should...
...Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed to discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets his nickname from his sandy red hair, his apple cheeks. He believes ardently...
...Massachusetts and the shad to Delaware, so is the lobster to Maine. Found only on the Atlantic coast from Henley Harbor, Labrador, to Cape Hatteras, N. C., the American lobster (Homarus americanus) is at its best off the coast of Maine, grows larger than its cousins down South. This advantage, upon which Maine's lobster industry was built, last week threatened to ruin it. Lobstermen setting their traps for the new season with halibut, herring and codfish heads anxiously questioned one another for news from Washington, where Maine's Congressmen Wallace Humphrey White Jr. and John Edward Nelson...
Owen McMahon Johnson, novelist (The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Stover at Yale, Children of Divorce), announced last week (apropos his latest novel, Sacrifice): "Second marriages are happier than first marriages. The new form of divorce-I call it 'amicable divorce'-is on a friendlier basis and much easier on the children...