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BOY AND GIRL TRAMPS OF AMERICA-Thomas Minehan- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50).
Author Minehan learned some useful tips on the art of begging. Said one adept: "Poorly dressed men with a grouch and a mean look are often the best prospects because they don't get hit so much." He learned to understand such lingo as: "I'm on the...
Reading the report of ''A General on Merry-Go-Round," (TiME, May 28) reminds me of a voyage I made some years ago on a U. S. Army transport. The ship had just returned from the Philippines bearing as passengers General Douglas MacArthur, Mrs. MacArthur (the present Mrs...
TREATISE ON RIGHT & WRONG-H. L. Mencken-Knopf ($3). Not many years ago Henry Louis Mencken was the god of U. S. liberal undergraduates, his lightest obiter dicta the unquestioned orders of their day. With a new. generation his authority has waned until now he appears an old-fashioned orthodox...
Jack's mother meant well by him, but he got so fed up with their niggardly life in a little Cheltenham shop, so eager to mix with chieftains in the wilds of South America, that one fine morning he ran away from home. Though he never got to South...