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...Spinster factory" was the name applied to a woman's college last year. "Cooperation is one of the largest lessons one can get from colleges," thus spoke Miss Marguerite Kimball, president of the Alumnae association before two generations of Radcliffians. From this point of view--the idea that a college must teach the student cooperation, that one should beware developing a selfish attitude and a lack of interest in all things not strictly scholastic--this suggests the words "personality factory...
...popular journalist-author. MEN AGAINST DEATH-Paul de Kruif - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). True tales of little-known fighters against disease. THE CAT WHO SAW GOD-Anna Gordon Keown-Morrow ($2.50). Late great Emperor Nero takes possession of the body of a cat, settles down with an English spinster. Amusing in the English manner...
...found dead, with a feathered dart in the back of her neck, it seems at first quite easy to guess who did it. Presently it becomes more difficult. A lugubrious old man might have done it because Jenny Wren caused his son to commit suicide. A gaunt spinster (Pauline Frederick) might have done it because her nephew wants to marry Jenny Wren's sister. So might a chipper crook (Ricardo Cortez), who gobbles peppermints and seems much interested in Jenny Wren's mail. Instead, it is the crook who solves the mystery, while a thunderstorm rages outside...
...true that 100 million persons want to know who killed Jenny Wren, it is a pity that the matter cannot be settled immediately and forever. This is impossible. It may be that in the picture the gaunt spinster is the one who jabs Jenny. But the prizes for endings will not be awarded until Thanksgiving and the prize-winners need not conform with the picture. The only satisfactory ending for The Phantom of Crestwood would be to borrow the glass barrel in Six Hours to Live (see col. 1), allow Jenny Wren to settle the matter herself...
...lover is in Jefferson all right, but under a different name and in jail. Miss Burden, an eccentric spinster who has lived for years under the shadow of the town's disapproval, has been murdered...