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...Author. Joel Sayre, 33, born a Hoosier, was brought up in Columbus, Ohio. During the War he served "briefly" with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in Siberia; after the Armistice continued his education at Williams, Toronto, Oxford, Heidelberg, Marburg, Bliss Business College. Off & on a newshawk for ten years (on the Ohio State Journal, New York Telegram, New York Daily News, New York Herald-Tribune), he tried his hand unsuccessfully at writing advertising copy, teaching school, studying medicine. Rackety Rax's success gave him a better idea...
...Welzl's Thirty Years in the Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
...from Tauris to Transcaucasia to Georgia to Cyprus, the Doukhobors-over 4,000 of them-arrived in Canada leaderless and penniless despite the help given them by British Quakers and by Count Leo Tolstoy who donated the royalties from his novel, Resurrection. Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader, was in Siberia but three years later he was released, went to Canada. Thereafter his flock grew numerous and prospered. Their canneries and granaries expanded. Their property became worth $20,000,000 even though Canada took back 360,000 of the now fruitful acres. Peter Verigin aged lustily, riding from village to village...
...Central Committee of the Communist Party, Exile Leon Trotsky declared that his tuberculous daughter Zinaide Volkov was driven to suicide in Berlin (TIME, Jan. 23) because Dictator Josef Stalin, "as a senseless act of vengeance against me," had deprived her of Russian citizenship, thus separating her permanently from her Siberia-banished husband and daughter...
Returning to Tokyo, Lieut.-General Araki wiped from his dreams of conquest Siberia but not Manchuria. He managed to retrieve his reputation by courage during the earthquake. As Chief of the Military Staff College until he was gazetted War Minister last year, he stood upon the supreme rostrum from which to preach (behind locked doors) the subjugation of all Manchuria...