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...lakefront from 12th to 39th Streets, the buildings surround a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight will be two 625-ft. steel towers joined by cables, soaring up between the Soldier Field stadium and Lake Michigan?' This is the Sky Ride (40? a head in 5-m.p.h. "rocket" cars) whence the entire layout can be surveyed...
IMPRESSIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA- André Siegfried-Harcourt, Brace ($2). André Siegfried has made a name for himself as a critical visitor, not only of the U. S. but of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. French to the core (which thinks itself sounder than that of any other nation) he looks about him in his travels with a penetratingly shrewd eye. On a swift tour of South America two years ago he wrote a series of diary letters to friends in France, telling what he thought about what he saw. Collected, they make a short book...
...Prohibition Amendment'). did the honors. Sir Henry & suite swept through the huge, roomy U-shaped brick structure, beamed at Director Randolph Thomas Major, saluted Director Hans Molitor whose philanthropic Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research occupies space in the new building. In the U. S., observed the chief visitor, there seems to be more deference paid to pharmacologists connected with educational institutions than to those connected with commercial organizations. In Europe this...
Nora Waln was the first foreigner ever to be admitted to the house; they welcomed her, treated her like one of themselves-all except one woman who had seen her mother raped by foreign soldiers. The Lins begged their visitor to excuse this relative's prejudice. Admitted to their hospitality, Nora Waln also had to obey their rules. After being presented to Kuei-tzu (Lady of First Authority in the House of Exile) she was forbidden to appear again until "sufficiently civilized" to hear and speak for herself; all members of the family were forbidden to speak...
...highly successful wizard, particularly adept at telling suspicious wives where their husbands spend the hours after work. Chandra's precarious prosperity ends when one of the husbands pays him an indignant call. Presently Chandra is being led off for two years in the penitentiary, for killing his visitor in self-defense...