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Since Joseph Conrad no writer has equalled his unforgettable stories of the ''glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Few have tried, and of these William McFee and H. M. Tomlinson, at their best, have been fortunate enough to emerge for brief moments from the vast shadow which Conrad cast over the sea in literature...
...Purvis, onetime head of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nevertheless falls into the literary ambush that has trapped so many of his predecessors, composing an account that contains two parts of philosophizing on crime to every one part of concrete information, two descriptions of plodding toil for every one of exciting capture or escape. The result is an uneven book narrowly saved from tediousness by Author Purvis' occasional candor...
...regulars in the lineup will invade Cambridge tomorrow confident of duplicating last year's 35-0 victory over Harvard. In the face of the mediocre season enjoyed be Coach Fritz Crisler's eleven thus far this confidence hardly seems justified. But a team which includes veterans Captain Montgomery, Charley Toil, Fred Ritter, George Stoess, and Steve Cullinan in the line and Ken Sandbach, Jack White, and Chick Kaufman in the backfield boasts enough potential power to run rough-shod over most of the stronger grid teams in the east...
...downpour roil and toil! The worst it can do to me Is carry some garden soil A little nearer...
...Federal funds allocated to his project. To WPA's payroll were transferred 15,639 players, singers, composers, teachers, librarians, copyists, arrangers, tuners, music-binders from non-musical relief jobs. "Hundreds of musicians," reported Director Sokoloff, "came with swollen, calloused fingers, with their lips stiff and chapped from unaccustomed toil in inclement weather." Since December WPA had formed 163 concert orchestras, 51 bands, 15 chamber-music ensembles, 22 choruses and quartets, 69 dance orchestras...