Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Million Customers, Carl Crow's engaging best-seller about life among Chinese businessmen, skeptics may have suspected that his Chinese sympathies had been inspired by his profitable Shanghai advertising business. When they learned that he had long been a Confucian, even skeptics had to admit it looked as though he had written from a well-informed heart...
With his first novel, Slim (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934), a story of the linemen who string high-voltage transmission lines, Author Haines, himself a lineman, made a clean jump from transmission poles to best-seller ranks and Hollywood. Though Slim seemed a little too slick for its subject, it nevertheless subordinated romance to accurate descriptions of a dramatic trade and the lusty linemen who follow it. High Tension, first published in the Saturday Evening Post, is wired for more popular tastes, reverses the proportions of romance and realism...
Hero is Jig's pal, Shelly Bayliss, a man's man, though he has a queer habit of saving money, not drinking or chasing women. Heroine is Florabelle, beautiful, long-legged daughter of the ritzy, skinflint widow at whose house Jig and Shelly are boarders. Halfway through the book Author Haines begins feeding his melodrama all the voltage it will stand. At the climax -a big train wreck-Author Haines throws his switches in time to save his hero & heroine for a wedding, but not soon enough to save his story from the unmistakable frying smell that goes...
Just as sensational, though perhaps not as spectacular, was the Crimson victory by Sophomore George Downing in the 16 pound shot. Downing three times broke the meet record, and his final throw of 48 ft., 9 7/6 in. Surpassed the record set by Johny Dean in 1934 by eight inches. He failed by 3/8 of an inch, however, to break Dean's all-time Harvard record...
Mason Fernald turned in a satisfactory afternoon's performance by placing second in the low hurdles and third in the highs. Both finishes were very close, and he pressed his rival Ted Day to new meet records in both, though the low hurdle mark was disallowed because of the tail wind...