Word: tors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago fancy pheasants were as rare in the U. S. as the four-volume mono graph on Pheasants, Their Lives and Homes-by William Beebe, published in 1918-22 at $250 per set and now a collec tor's item at $750. Brilliantly-plumed birds could be seen on the lawns of ty coons like Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, but to most citizens a pheasant was only a long-tailed wild bird useful for sport and food. Now Naturalist Beebe's definitive work has been re-issued in one volume at $3.50* and pheasant raising...
...found Playwright Anderson off form this time, deplored his tendency toward purple prolixity wished he might comb the abundant and unruly skeins of his verse a bit more carefully instead of trying to turn out two or three masterpieces a year. Promised within the next month are his High Tor, to be presented by Actress Cornell's husband, Guthrie McClintic, and The Masque of Kings, to be produced by the Theatre Guild...
Regarded at first with kindly tolerance, Reader's Digest in the late 1920's became a source of alarm to publishers who wondered if its checks made up for its bang-up competition for readers' attention. So Edi tor Wallace quietly began to publish original articles, now pays $500 to $1,000 for such material. Most famed Reader's Digest original was " -and Sudden Death," by Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, which ap peared in August 1935, dramatized the slaughter of automobile casualties, was quoted far & wide, fathered many a horror-struck accident report in the Press...
...AMERICAN DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY-Vic-tor Heiser-Norton...
...semiprofessional pitcher, he likes being where he can get off to a big-league baseball game with Vice President Garner as often as possible. He likes being near the Burning Tree Golf Club where he shoots in the 80's with Democratic Senator Barkley or Republican Sena tor McNary for opponents. He likes being where he can spend an evening watching a wrestling match or sitting in on a game of bridge or poker, which he plays expertly, with considerable bluffing. He likes to be where his hosts of bigwig friends are com ing & going, where cronies like Joseph...