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...Arundel, Sussex home, handsome, patrician John Galsworthy, 65. learned he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. To Dr. Irvinq Langmuir, 51, went the Nobel award for Chemistry (see p. 24). Left: by Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, relict of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts...
...Charles Conklin, a farmer of Sussex, N. J., has a bantam rooster with four wings. The extra flippers are attached to the rooster's legs. When the fowl runs he kicks up as much dust as a rotary plow and when he hops into the air he looks like a biplane...
Lemon snow and cherry syllabub* (of Sussex and Hampshire...
With a nurse for its villain and two little Sussex girls for heroines. Authoress Kaye-Smith's Summer Holiday is less a novel than a thinly veiled autobiographical sketch. The story is dedicated to "Moira" the younger heroine, who with her dreamier sister Selina spends a blissful summer on a farm near Hastings, near Authoress Kaye-Smith's home town, St. Leonards-on-Sea. Hayrides, all-day suckers, caterpillars in matchboxes, unripe pears, bellyaches and bellyaching, make half the Kaye-Smith children's fun. Their simple growing love for the Sussex countryside and country people makes...
Like a hoary ground hog looking for a shadow, Rudyard Kipling has again ventured from his Sussex lair. But either his spring is late or Mr. Kipling has passed to disembodied immortality and the twilight of the gods. No shadow falls. This first new fiction volume of Kipling in six years, a collection of 14 stories, 19 verses, conveys chiefly an aged emptiness. The stories are, of course, masterfully told, but they are not masterpieces...