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TRIAL BALANCE-William March-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). William Edward March Campbell worked his way up from $25-a-week stenographer to vice president of a steamship company. During a long illness, he started writing short stories under the pen name of William March. At 44 (in 1938) he quit business to give his full time to writing. Author of two successful novels (Company K, The Tallons), March still specializes in short stories, which have appeared in almost every kind of U.S. magazine from The Yale Review to Esquire. In Trial Balance, Storyteller March has selected 55 of his best: short...
...steamship company couldn't take Mrs. Thompson unless her visa said "To Constanta." And the Russian Consulate couldn't change the visa because Moscow had specifically named Odessa as her port of entry. Finally, after much bilingual ping-pong, the steamship company accepted a note from the Russian Consulate recommending that Mrs. Thompson travel to Odessa "via Constanta...
...Clair River from Detroit and Windsor. An hour after daybreak she eased into the dock at Point Edward, Ont. Her 247 passengers, most of them Americans, got up drowsily for a picnic ashore. Later, 80-odd more passengers would arrive from Toronto. Then the Canada Steamship Lines' 36-year-old ship would shove off for Duluth, Minn, as she had done many times for many summers...
Miraculously, no one was killed, and few were seriously hurt. But the Hamonic was burned to a shell. Canada Steamship figured the loss, to ship, dock and port equipment, at more than...
...corporation, owned partly by B.O.A.C., mostly by British South American steamship lines, to service Portugal, Spain, West Africa and South America...