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...TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend on their receptive brows not like a hail of sleet but a gentle dew. Far & away Author Bowen's best book, it is certainly one of the few Grade-A novels that will be published in 1936. Though critics have never yet put Elizabeth Bowen on a par with Virginia Woolf, they may yet rank her ahead...
...Notch, with 19 1/2 inches of snow is a sure bet on skiing according to Old Man Winter of the Boston Transcript. The Snow Train is going to Canaan, N. H. where there is nine inches of snow. The weather forecast was for snow probably changing to rain or sleet today. Conditions will, therefore, depend on whether it snows or rains...
Yesterday's sleet storm seemed to put increased vigor into Lowell House's monthly bell-bedlam. Caring neither for sleet nor student, Arthur T. Merrit, Eliot House music tutor, climbed to his tower station accompanied by several assistants. Two of the merrymakers stood under the 14-ton bass bell and another at the chains and footpedal operating the remaining 16 bells...
...with some 2,000,000 privately-owned carriers in the "reserve." After ten years of experiments at Fort Monmouth, N. J., the Signal Corps has developed a brood of 100 night-flying pigeons-first of their kind. Particularly useful in connection with military planes, they can fly through rain, sleet, fog, snow and around thunderstorms, are vulnerable to nighthawks but little else. They do not fly entirely by blind instinct, but apparently have their own system of avigation. The secret is supposedly in the ear, since the birds are unable to fly with their ears stopped up. U. S. distance...
Driving back to Harvard after spring vacation in a blinding sleet storm, Col. Theodore Roosevelt's two eldest sons, Theodore III and Cornelius, did not see a truck stalled by the roadside at Shrewsbury, Mass. With Theodore driving the family station wagon, they crashed into the truck, demolished their car, crawled out with nothing worse than cuts, bruises and a broken right arm for Cornelius...