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...Judith Kelly- Harper ($2). In this provocative first novel, Author Kelly presents with earnestness and frequently with hysteria the dilemma of a beautiful young Bostonian who enjoys her wealth but deplores its implications. Author Kelly has an irritating trick of bearing down on her favorite adjectives: The heroine is "sleek," "sly," "vivid" and "expensive...
...experts had predicted: Viktor Barna of Budapest, five times world champion, won the men's title. Ruth Hughes Aarons won the women's. Together they took the mixed doubles title and, to make her performance perfect, Rath Aarons also shared the women's doubles championship. If sleek little Viktor Barna is the Tilden of table tennis, Ruth Hughes Aarons, daughter of a Manhattan theatre manager, shows signs of becoming its Helen Wills Moody. She started to play three years ago when she was 14. Last week brought her her third U. S. championship. She had just returned...
This from one whose capital is increasing $2,000 per day or thereabouts struck the merriest possible note in Scotland. Cheerfully the King, in sleek long coat and bowler, set out to repeat in Glasgow slums the sort of famed house-to-house tour he made as Edward of Wales through the bleak, starveling Welsh collieries and "Depressed Areas...
...sleek, white DeSoto sporting a uniformed driver, a neatly lettered legend "Cambridge Protective Patrol," and an attractive young feminine occupant--has caused considerable speculation around the Square lately. Some had it that the Police Department was undergoing extensive modernization...
Britain's foremost armament firms, Vickers Ltd. and Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., sent their joint Board Chairman, sleek, tall General Sir Herbert A. Lawrence. once Chief of Staff of the B. E. F. in France, and their bland, trim, assured General Manager Sir Charles Craven, famed in Mayfair for his mannerism of "talking down to the ruling class." The Chairman of the Royal Commission asked if in Vickers' experience bribery is necessary to obtain armament orders outside of Britain...