Sylvia Confesses Love for Protective Donald at Lake
Sylvia Quentin seeks aid from Donald Winslow, her lifelong protector, then reveals she is in love with him. He resists, fearing unfairness, until she insists he is the man she loves who will not ask her to marry. The moment ends with her realization as Donald's grease smeared hand betrays the situation.
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Donald Winslow
Sylvia Quentin
Donald
Sylvia
Winslow Place
Iack
Syvia
Sylw
Sylvie
Wasee
Tye
Donald Donald
Darling
New
University of California
Harvard
Paris
Academe
Africans Use Tom Toms For Music Messages
In African wilds trees winds and thunder provide sounds for natives. Drums fade into a system to signal across camps and tribes, sending word of soldiers and events. Drum orchestras perform with big and small drums while a wooden box or metal pot drum is also used. The xylophone is called the African piano.
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Africa
Burns Day Observances Worldwide Honor Scotland's Poet
The article notes Burns Night on January 25 as Scots worldwide observe the birth anniversary of poet Robert Burns born 1759 near Ayr. It covers his early life as a farm laborer, his literary rise after 1786, income from the 1789 excise post, and his death in 1796. His enduring fame as a leading lyric poet is highlighted.
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Robert Burns
Burns
Ayr
Spectator
Pope
Jamaica
Scotland
George Ade and Louie Mayer Profile
A compact portrait traces George Ade as a leading fabulist and Louie Mayer’s rise from salvage work to MGM presidency. The feature links Ade’s wartime photography in France to Mayer’s ascent from street entrepreneur to Hollywood power, highlighting their bold, defining turns.
Davy Crockett and Martin Scott Intersect in Coonskin Tales
The article traces how a coon story credited to Davy Crockett mirrors earlier yarns about Lieut. Col. Martin Scott of Bennington. It recounts Scott’s hunting exploits, the Fort Howard and Green Bay era, and his Mexico campaign death, noting Crockett’s posthumous fame and the spread of the tale as a tribute to frontier prowess.
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Davy Crockett
Tennessee
Crockett
Bane Ee
Bennington
Martin Scott
Hennington
Harper's Ferry
Scott
Fort Howard
Green Bay
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Merrill
Coon
New York
Lake Bonaparte
Adirondacks
Utica
N. Y
New York Sun
Bear
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Fifth
United States Army
R. B. Marcy
Molino del Rey
Mexico
Jack
Strikes and Democracy in Wartime Britain and America
The article cites Laurence Sullivan’s figures on man hours lost to strikes from 1930 to 1939 and 1941 projections, arguing Wagner Act administration worsens strike issues. It warns democracy suffers from misinformation, urges factual reporting, and links domestic spending to town vitality while tracing dictatorships to abdication of legislative power.
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Department of Labor
Washington
United States
Lawrence Sullivan
Labor Department
England
William Green
John L
Irish diplomat Robert Breenan’s wartime fate in Britain
Robert Breenan, Ireland’s minister to Washington, once a pulp writer, was jailed in Dublin Cork Dartmoor and Gloucester during the Black and Tans uprising. He and five others were sentenced to death but spared as they were led to execution. In 1920 De Valera appointed him undersecretary of the foreign office.
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Washington
United States
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de Valera
Foreign Office
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