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...psalter. He finished 90 pages, with elaborate titles in gold and colors for each psalm, a miniature for each page, and a small painting at the bottom of each column of text. Then after sketching in his decorations for 23 more pages, this skillful illuminator died under circumstances unknown to history...
Leaving her door invitingly ajar, Mrs. Collier retires. Butler Regan packs his bag, prepares to leave the house, as if he feared the lightning were about to strike it. Unknown to the siren, Tom Collier is about to leave, too. Months before he had said: "Any good man who leaves his work for the world, leaves it for a whore." On the mantel he places a check. Then he claps his hat on his head, stalks toward the door. "I am going back to my wife," decides Tom, meaning, as is by this time clear, Daisy...
...ambition to dominate a countrywide, integrated oil company. Ever since he began buying up and reselling oil lands many years ago with never-varying success he has looked forward to a unit like Consolidated. Harry Sinclair is of that second generation of oil pioneers who found the fat plums unknown to the Standard Oil Trust when they began to study synclines and anticlines. And his legion of friends were happy, for he had vindicated his reputation as one of the best-liked...
After laying a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington, Father Cox mustered his army, started on the 300-mi. trip back to Pittsburgh. (Expenses for returning 276 stragglers by train were defrayed by Pennsylvania's richest citizen, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.) Again, as they rumbled by, grave crowds watched them as though for the first time they were seeing a genuine sign of the times...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...