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Meantime all Detroit has asked, "Who is Nancy Brown?" Years ago the News's editors concluded that the best way to build up their columnist as a circulation-puller was to make a mystery of her identity. They have continued to whet Detroit's curiosity by creating around Nancy Brown's real name as titillating a hocus-pocus as that which made the reputations of The Man in the Iron Mask and radio's Your Lover. At her parties and religious services she mingles anonymously with the crowd. Only a few of her Column Folks have...
...Dante and his Beatrice, could even recognize a picture of the poet, but no one knows much about his actual life. Biographer Papini, adducing no factual discoveries, intends his book to be "a moral and spiritual portrait." Readers will find it disappointingly dogmatic but its controversial scrappiness may whet their curiosity...
...Crime appears regularly each week on the editorial page of the Crimson and contains whimsical tidbits to whet the literary appetite of the reader...
...certainly not the purpose of the Office of Naval Operations, which set the problem. The Navy's tactical and strategic exercises, staged almost monthly, are shaped to a more practical end. Their objective is not to develop some grand strategy for the next war but to whet the minds and strengthen the bodies of Navy personnel, to indicate the condition of material, the efficiency of its operation. When, sometime next month, the Chief of Naval Operations receives reports on Exercise M, he will collate them, then subdivide them according to their interest to the various naval divisions. The engineering...
Sally and Jack's: 16 Fayette St. $0.50 minimum charge. Excellent coffee, unexcelled onion soup, innumerable other delicacies to whet the epicurean appetite. Real McCoy bohemian atmosphere hours. No drinks, but if you bring your Open at 9.30 P. M.--stays so till all ingredients Jack will accommodate skillfully. Dress: unimportant...