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North Carolina. Gastonia, N. C., is named for William Gaston, onetime (1875-76) Massachusetts Governor. There the Manville-Jenckes Co., Pawtucket, R. I., operates the Loray Mills, producing yarn for cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused...
Good recent Wallaces are The Clever One, an engrossing tale of counterfeit money, and The Twister, ingenious yarn of English race tracks and Dutch diamond swindles. Old favorites are: A King by Night, The Green Archer, The Door with Seven Locks, The Girl From Scotland Yard, two of which Queen Mary bought at a London three-penny-six-penny shop for the king (TIME, March...
Author E. Phillips Oppenheim's latest detective justifies himself, and the author, by spinning his own yarn, The Treasure House of Martin Hews (Little, Brown, $2), packed with murderers, shocks, electric gadgets...
...contradictory satires and Utopias are abundant evidence that he has not always had this faith, but has developed it gradually, epitomizing it in The Open Conspiracy. Whatever the burden of proof, Rampole Island is more than excellent satire, replete with symbolism and analogy; it is an eminently good yarn packed with humor, humanity, and occasional high adventure...
Debunking has been of recent years the profitable pastime of biographers, and the relentless preoccupation of Bible scholars. Poaching on the preserves of both, a novelist now spins an entertaining yarn to debunk David, and a poet resorts to prose to do something of the sort for Moses...