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Most readers today are casual readers, and a casual perusal of Mr. Hillyer's poems will only make one feel that in many passages he has tried to imitate the criticisms of wilder moderns and in a manner faintly reminiscent of Pope...
...Premier Hepburn, but the Globe and Mail continues to support "Mitch" as vociferously as ever. It claims to have heard that desperate C. I. O. thugs from the U. S. are ready to kidnap the Premier's adopted children. Such charges are typical "Dominion journalism" (in Australia even wilder words are flung), and on the side George McCullagh has done something regarded as bravura even by the Canadian press by deciding to devote huge editorial space in the Globe and Mail to his past adventures with strong drink and present successes in vanquishing Demon...
Like the characters in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, who were united through the device of having them tumble to their death together when an Andean bridge collapsed, the characters in The Seven Who Fled are strung together only through the accident of their common expulsion, the similarity of their final nihilistic verdict on human affairs...
...Latest: The Mayo Clinic, written and published by Lucy Elizabeth Beeler Wilder, who operates Rochester's best-known bookstore and is the wife of the head of the Mayo Foundation's department of medicine, Professor Russell Morse Wilder...
...Robinson down in Arkansas just three days before the Democrats of the U. S. Senate met to pick his successor as their leader-highest gift in their power. It was the first time Democrats had gathered for such a purpose since Dec. 4, 1923, when the late great Oscar Wilder Underwood's resignation took effect. Joe Robinson had then been chosen unanimously...