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...shining exception among Author Lewis' labored tales is his brilliant The Willow Walk, a first-rate story in any company. A small-town bank teller with a talent for dramatics wanted to commit a perfect crime, and did. He constructed the myth of his twin brother, John, hermit and religious fanatic, often posed as John to get the story believed. Then he stole $97,000, put on the character and clothing of fictitious John, waited for the search to die down. For 18 months he lived and prayed and slept as John, found himself becoming John. In desperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Warmed-Over Dish | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Trinity | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...rich Willow Creek gold mines, bituminous coal fields and Matanuska Valley agricultural district are all located within 50 miles of Anchorage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Willow Springs, III, Mrs. Ralph Hoover divorced her husband and at the same time got free advertising for a mineral spring she owns by testifying that her husband lost interest in her when, by drinking her own spring water she reduced her weight from 218 to 129 Ib. Said she: "He wanted me to get back my mosque proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Teeth | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...willow, titwillow, titwillow.' It is all rather sad. --Columbia Spectator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/30/1935 | See Source »

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