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SUSAN SPRAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith- Harper ($2.50).- Sheila Kaye-Smith likes Sussex, continues to write about its broad, quiet fields, its broad, quiet people. If by some unlikely chance you have never read one of her books, Susan Spray is a good one to begin on. If you fear being bored to extinction by heavy dialect and heavy characters clodhopping to a country tragedy, take heart: there is enough irony, humanity, sly humor to leaven a much heavier lump...
...aviation officers, Air Commodore Felton Vesey Holt was made Air Vice Marshal, placed in command of air defenses last month. (He had been in charge of the staff which examined the wreckage of the R-101.) Last week Air Vice Marshal Holt reviewed the flying forces at Tangmere Airdrome, Sussex, flew in a Moth biplane with Flight Lieut. Henry Moody. One of the ten planes escorting him dropped out of place, edged close to the Moth, brushed wings with it, sent it crashing. Vice Marshal Holt was killed; so was Lieutenant Moody-37th member of the Royal Air Force...
...Sussex, N. J., Farmer Patrick Devine & son were in his wagon; his horse in front; his cow behind; his dog gamboling here & there. Up leaped the dog, bit the horse's nose. Terrified, horse and cow upset the wagon. Farmer Devine threw his son out, jumped, caught his foot in a chain, was killed under the wheels...
Edmund Charles Blunden, 33, onetime (1924-27) Professor of English literature at Tokyo University, served in the War with the Royal Sussex Regiment. Great & good friend of Poets Robert Graves, Robert Nichols, with them he lived in the Boar's Hill poet's colony (near Oxford) just after the War. Poet Blunden won the Hawthornden Prize in 1922. Other books: The Waggoner, The Shepherd, Masks of Time, Retreat, Undertones...
Died. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 71, author (The White Company, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Micah Clarke, The Hound of the Baskervilles, History of Spiritualism, The Coming of the Fairies); suddenly, of heart disease; at Crowborough, Sussex, England. One of the world's foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days...