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...Only partially apocryphal stories say that there each couple was furnished with riding horses, chauffeur and car, pilot and airplane. Able son of an able father, likable "Chuck" was, needless to say, quite popular. Nearly omniscient TIME, still with eyes turned slightly eastward, brings to light many a Yarvard yarn, fails to see many a Siwash romance. CAREY CRONEIS Chicago...
...would still make hair-raising cinema of the Dr. Calgari model. Like the late great Joseph Conrad's method of spinning a yarn. Faulkner's is roundabout, circular: sometimes the suspense is awful, sometimes merely interminable. Like Conrad, Faulkner makes his people coherent to an unlikely and omnireminiscent degree. Unlike Conrad, Faulkner depends on madmen for his best effects. From the vasty deep of nightmares and bogeymen he can summon up ghosts that haunt nurseries and still frighten some grownups. With fewer bogeymen than usual, a happy issue out of some of its afflictions. Light in August continues...
...refused to tell the Press how he dangled for two hours on a rope beneath the wind-tossed U. S. S. Akron over Camp Kearny, Calif, unless the Press would pay him (TIME, May 23). But in Tulsa, Okla. last week Sailor Cowart could not resist spinning a yarn for the home folks. He described how he and two mates of the ground crew were jerked high into the air when the airship broke her moorings...
...music, dictated by Delius note by note to his young friend Eric Fenby, was accepted by Britishers as a worthy epilog to a quiet, distinguished musical career. Fifty years ago Delius' parents did all they could to thwart their musical son. They wanted him for the stuff & yarn trade. When he refused they sent him to Florida to tend an orange grove. Thereafter Delius spent little time in England. He studied in Leipzig for a while, settled finally in France to write gentle, sombre music, much of it reminiscent of England...
...Fair (1893), stocky little George Armsby, 17, scorned college, went to work for his father's big Chicago firm, J. K. Armsby Co., distributors of California products. The next year he became a salesman, traveled through the Midwest and Southwest. Agreeable, talkative, able to swap a good yarn, he convinced buyers that they should purchase his father's peaches and prunes. Most of his life since then has been spent convincing...