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...BROTHERS-Translated from the Chinese by Pearl S. Buck-John Day, 2 vol...
...Manhattan, the New York Sun celebrated its centenary (see p. 24) by reproducing its first issue. Excerpt from Vol. 1, No. 1 page i (Sept...
...whip up some of the oldtime spirit that characterized the trimmer, grimmer A. E. F., President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, the army of jobless forestry workers, last week commenced publishing its own weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol. I No. 1 was frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow...
outer office. He said he had come about Mr. Morgan's manuscript of Vol. I of Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, mysteriously stolen from a loan exhibition last autumn at Columbia University (TIME, Dec. 5). He was whisked in at once to Mr. Morgan. For five months world police had been watching pawnshops and "fences" for the MS. The man said quietly, "Would you be interested in getting back Guy Mannering on a basis of no questions asked, no money paid?'' Mr. Morgan said, "Yes." The man left and soon a messenger brought the manuscript...
...Vol. 1 No. 1 carried departments for Government, Business, Art, Medicine, Sport, Music, Theatre, Persons. It told how Mayor Roesch "lit a fresh cigar, twiddled his watch chain a moment," slashed the city's budget. Happiest stroke was a three-column report on the just-published memoirs of Buffalo's Mabel Ganson Dodge Sterne Luhan who, now married to a Taos Indian, gained bohemian fame by previously marrying Painter Maurice Sterne and writing her intimate reminiscences of Author David Herbert Lawrence (Lorenzo in Taos...