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...LADY IN THE LAKE-Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Mr. Marlowe, forthright and uninhibited California shamus (private detective), is hired to trace the missing wife of a perfume manufacturer, encounters three murders, trades punches with the police, and finally drives a tragic and cunningly concealed killer to his death. An astringent, hardbitten, expertly constructed and convincingly characterized story of the just-tough-enough school...
...black or yellow, the delegates (average age: about 25) set about saving the world with enthusiasm and organized cheering. Japan's delegates argued amiably with China's, the Socialists, not so amiably, with the Communists. A lone pro-fascist delegate from Eire. Seumas Ua hEamhthaigh (pronounced: Shamus O'Heavey), soon made himself at home. Youngest delegate was Spain's Margarita Robles, 14, oldest was East Africa's Ernest Kalibala, 38, born a bushman and now a school principal...
...partly for business, chiefly to improve the soccer. The Americans have two British fullbacks, three Scottish halfbacks, an inside right named Hausler who is an Austrian Jew, a centre forward, George Michaels, who was born of Russian parents in China, an inside left named William ("Shamus") O'Brien and a goal guard from Bayonne, N. J., named Stanley Chesney...
...little before Christmas one Benjamin Minturn of Chicago heard that, because of lagging stamp sales, the post office at Florence, Kan., his home town, would be reduced to third class, and that his old schoolmate, Postmaster Shamus O'Brien, might have his salary cut. To Schoolmate O'Brien he sent $1,000 for stamps, to make Florence seem like more of a post office (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this kind deed was nullified. Postmaster O'Brien was informed from Washington that the $1,000 order would not count in his year's business. Postmasters were...
...shrewd-nor TIME either. Section 163 of the Postal Laws and Regulations of 1924 reads: "Postage stamps, or special delivery stamps, whether affixed to envelopes or not, shall not be redeemed for the public nor exchanged for other postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, or postal cards. . . ." And Postmaster Shamus O'Brien might well keep in mind the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1909 (now in title 18, section 331 of the United States Code) prescribing quite a penalty for postmasters who induce purchases for the purpose of increasing their pay or affecting the allowance of facilities...