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...knowing brows shot up in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore one day last summer at sight of two well-known townsmen in conference over a lunch table in a dark corner. One of them was James H. Rand Jr., brisk, bulky president of Remington Rand, Inc., world's biggest makers of office equipment. The other was gruff, blocky Pearl Louis Bergoff, No. 1 U. S. strikebreaker...
...have fashioned a show which does not hesitate to exploit any form of theatrical procedure necessary to attain its end. The production begins conventionally enough in April 1917 with Johnny Johnson (Russell Collins), a tombstone carver with an odd way of thinking things out straight, surrounded by his fellow townsmen who have come to see the mayor unveil Johnson's statue to Peace. The ceremony is interrupted by President Wilson's declaration of war against Imperial Germany and thereafter the narrative plunges into a succession of reveries and nightmares. Torn at first between his love for his patriotic...
COURTHOUSE SQUARE-Hamilton Basso -Scribner ($2.50). Deftly written novel about a novelist who sickens of New York intellectual life, returns after ten years to his birthplace in a small Southern town, narrowly escapes lynching when he disturbs fellow-townsmen's ideas about Negroes...
Because the farmers of that rocky, rural little State were frozen in by November, Maine long ago began holding its State elections in September. Because its farmers and townsmen seemed permanently frozen solid in Republicanism, GOPoliticians fostered the slogan that "As Maine goes, so goes the nation." Because the nation has sent Republican Presidents to the White House in all but five elections since the Civil War, the venerable saw has gained currency, though not validity. It is not even true that as Maine goes, so goes Maine. In 1932 it elected a Democratic Governor and two Congressmen in September...
...Manchester, N. H. last week for a brief campaign speech to his onetime fellow townsmen was Republican Vice Presidential Nominee William Franklin Knox of Chicago. It was in Manchester that Frank Knox gained newspaper fame as publisher of the Manchester Union and Leader which he still owns. While he was there last week his papers carried the saddest dispatch they had ever printed. In Boston 55 miles away a Federal District Court ordered the immediate liquidation of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., biggest cotton textile mill in the U. S. and Manchester's principal industry...