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When two slick fellows wrote him offering to trace his ancestry for $2, Secretary Harold L. Ickes sent the $2. Back came not only genealogical tables but a nice coat of arms. Having established after a four-way check that there is no Ickes coat of arms, Honest Angry Harold turned the tables over to the Department of Justice, had the men arrested for using the mails to defraud...
...first novel, 28-year-old Daniel Lundberg uses an idiom of his own. At once callow and articulate, it can make things seem simultaneously ridiculous and touching without showing a trace of the oldtime Tarkington smirk. It is the almost perfect tongue for the self-revelations of a Dedham high-school senior...
...Stock Exchange. In these settings, Brazilian life seems polite and well-dressed, constantly accompanied by an ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background of beautiful girls. Of the Brazilian characters, only the Baron's rival broker (J. Carrol Naish) has a trace of perfidy and that is gently masked. Since Miss Faye as the Baroness with a brush of Brooklyn in her accent prefers the Latin Don Ameche to the U. S. duplicate, and since the U S Ameche prefers Carmen Miranda, Pan-American attraction is adequately proved. That Night in Rio should convince...
...Pekingese and two fox terriers be cared for by the Infanta Beatriz de Bourbon y Orleans, Carol's aunt. Meanwhile Seville police broke open such hand baggage as Carol and Magda had left behind, found mostly tinned foodstuffs which in Spain today are precious luxuries. Missing was any trace of the fat manuscript of memoirs upon which Carol Hohenzollern has been working for months...
...that is Past to the Age that is Going Before. Far back in the mists of time Seniors, who once occupied the Yard, found their way from building to building by an instinct developed through long practice, not to mention an aptitude inherited from Cambridge ancestors plus a trace of Indian blood. But modern steam-heated life has dulled the senses; scholars today come not only from Cambridge and vicinity but also from Nebraska and Indo-China. Strangely enough, it is difficult for a Middle Westerner gazing with deep foreboding at the ghastly gray pile before him to know with...