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Tear-dimmed blue eyes, watching- down the street-in vain...
...District Attorney sought in vain for some more serious motive than the small-town newspaper feud which had been developing since jovial, backslapping, man-of-the-world McCracken went to Alturas three years ago and shortly afterward started his mimeographed daily in opposition to the 42-year-old printed weekly which motherly Mrs. French edits...
...suddenly appears in Mr. Bolitho's new book that King Edward "was harassed, unreasonable and vain," whereas in Leisure of last spring he was remarkable for "the gentleness of his judgments" and "his standards were as rigid as those of his father" although Biographer Bolitho of course knew then about Mrs. Simpson...
...WOULD BE PRIVATE-Rose Macaulay -Harper ($2.50). Horrified by the publicity of quintuplet parenthood, upright London Policeman McBrown & family flee in vain to a remote Caribbean island...
...peace. On the other hand, the peace strikes of other years had been rendered futile by the ridicule and indifference of a Harvard community that considered the strike paradoxically militant. In 1935, the spring-feverish antics of Hitler-mustachioed students clad in boy scout uniforms easily outshone the vain attempts of the peace lectures...