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An old fashioned, romantic narrative with no Joycean or Proustian nonsense about it, the novel is written in a methodical style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in...
Into Wilkes-Barre, Pa. parcel-post boxes one evening last week were dumped six cigar boxes, neatly wrapped in white paper. Each was labeled "Sample" and addressed to a local citizen.
Third box, addressed to Judge Benjamin R. Jones, was intercepted by postal officials. Former Sheriff Luther Kniffen's box had a defective fuse. Harry Goul-stone, superintendent of a local colliery, doused his in a bucket of water. Sixth, apparently intended for Gorman, onetime umpire of the Anthracite Board...
Births. Life's biologic processes went on, hastened by the stress & strain of disaster. In Milton, Pa. a baby was born in a high-school biology laboratory. In Kingstown, Pa. a woman gave birth in a street car. In Wilkes-Barre two were delivered in rescuing Army trucks. In...
At Wilkes-Barre, the Record was printed by candlelight, its presses hooked to an emergency circuit. The Dansville, N. Y. Breeze failed to blow for the first time in 52 years. And at Hartford, Conn., the Courant, one of the oldest U. S. newspapers, was forced to lift its venerable...