New Novels Highlight Jazz Age’s Sharp Portraits
Critics review D H Lawrence and two other works about modern youth and society. Carol Denny Hill’s Wild traces a Ho rizon college student’s Manhattan diary from Bar nard to Greenwich Village while Kathleen Norris Barberry Bush exposes the clash of old and new in California. Harold Bell Wright’s God and the Groceryman critiques modern preaching. A Paris train episode ends with a mother reuniting with her baby.
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Carol Denny Hill
John Day
Miss Hill
Manhattan
Edington
Ohio
Barnard College
Greenwich Village
Ritz
Ambassador
Carl
Kathleen Norris
Barberry Bush
Doubleday
Page
Miss Norris
California
Barry
Barberry
Kent
Elmer Gantry
Wright
Cherbourg
Paris
Marthe Dusel
New York
Caen
Gabriel Michaud
Michaud
United States Line
Records in speed by stop watch on bears and fish
Pacific coast sportsmen clock animals and fish with stopwatches revealing speeds. A grizzly bear reached 45 mph in a narrow canyon. barracuda swam 70 mph. sharks 40 mph. tuna tarpon salmon over 50 mph. water spaniels swim a mile in 34 minutes. black snake 50 feet in 42 seconds. insects timed with no sensational results.
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International
San Francisco
Tijuana
San Diego
Cealo Mohawk
Santa Barbara
Tri-State Fair Exposition Enthusiasm Reaches Peak
Activity in the Tri-State Fair association offices is at its height as secretary-manager Bob Emmett and a staff of six or seven clerks handle mail and inquiries. F. C. Lassater of Falfurrias Texas, a noted Jersey cattle breeder, seeks entry blanks and information to participate, signaling record interest in the Fifth Annual exposition poised to surpass all prior shows.
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Tri-State Fair Association
Bob Emmett
F. C. Lassater
Falfurrias
Texas
Lassater
Jerseys
United States
Jersey Island
Detroit Gold Cup Regatta Draws Record Field
Detroit expects a larger field of both foreign and American craft for the 1927 Gold Cup Regatta on the Detroit River September 3 to 6. Key events include the 151 cubic inch national trophy class, the 112 litre international, and the 100-mile sweepstakes with entries from Germany Britain and the United States. Notable boats include Sigfrid V and Siegfried VI from Germany, Miss Betty and News from Britain, and American contenders such as Little Spit Fire, Little Shadow, Miss California, Baby Ruth, Boots I, Spit Fire VI, Miss Westchester, Miss Buckeye, and Miss Massachusetts.
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International News Service
Detroit
Mich
Detroit River
England
Germany
America
R. C. Kreuger
Sigfrid V
Siegfried VI
Johnson-Noad
Miss Betty
M. B. Carstair
Great Britain
J. H. Rand
Buffalo Launch Club
Com. Gar Wood
Tommy Milton
Little Shadow
Fred Thompson
Peoria
Houston
Cleveland
A. T. Walbridge
Pirate
Shadow V
Greenwich
Fox Hunt At Cronus Fell Turns Odd With Raven Assist
Officials of the exposition praise the fair as departments work hard for success. During a Ullswater Hounds fox hunt on Cronus Fell near Yonka England a raven joined the chase, adding an unlikely alliance to the sport.
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Ullswater
Cronus Fell
Yonka
England
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Carol Denny Him
D. H. Lawrence
Mexico
Knopf
Lawrence
NEA
Honolulu
George Cowell
R. S. Waggener
Point Loma
Manney Printing Co
Fair Office
Polk ST
Puritan Pound
Australia
Australian Chilled Meat and Food
Bucs
Black Flag
Black Fine Co
Ces
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