Review of New Books on Public Education and Literature
Nathaniel W. McKelvey argues many recent books rush to educate the public, shelf a few truly literary works, and lists titles such as The Devil In France by Lion Feuchtwanger and Yankee Bride in Moscow by Elizabeth Hampel among others, noting twelve informative volumes in a sample of twenty.
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France
Lion Feuchtwanger
I. Schapera
Eric Linklater
Havana
City
Hugh Bradley
Martin Gumrt
Capt
Illiam H. Baumer
Moscow
Elizabeth Hampel
Cross in the Caribbean by Albert Idell reviewed
A critical assessment lauds Cross in the Caribbean for its vitality and craft while noting Idell still learns his craft. The analysis praises Idell’s descriptive tropical detail and the novel’s conflict between free Christianity and superstition on a fictitious Caribbean island.
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Albert E. Idell
Henry Holt & Co
New York
Albert Idell
Idell
America
Ben Gerson
Caribbean
L’orient
Gerson
Christ
Make-Believe
St. Etienne du Mont
Antoinette Duval
Father Euchariste
la Caribe
Ben
Hollywood
Winchell apologizes for Nazi tale mix up
Walter Winchell extended an apology to writer William Russell after crediting Bill Shirer's Berlin Diary for a Nazi tale that originated in Russell's Berlin Embassy. He praised Berlin Embassy as an excellent book of Nazi lowdown.
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Winchell
Walter Winchell
William Russell
Bill Shirer
Berlin
Russell
Walter
Botany Bay review by Nordhoff and Hall
Nordhoff and Hall craft a best selling historical adventure about early Australia prison camps adventurers and pretty ladies. The duo’s action driven tale promises a giddy exciting ride in the tradition of Mutiny on the Bounty and Men Against the Sea.
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Nordhoff
Hall
Botany Bay
Australia
Freighter Holiday review by Fay Orr
Hastings House travelogue about a Caribbean freighter voyage lacks depth. The critic notes strong setting with ports like Port of Spain Paramaribo St Pierre but criticizes sentimentality and overused cliches and calls the prose lacking stylistic bite.
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Fay Orr
Hastings House
S. S
Port of Spain
Paramaribo
St. Pierre
Miss Orr
Caribbean
Africa
Delicate reaction to Miss Orr’s book bound tribute
The passage notes that Miss Orr’s relatives would delight in the bound volume yet doubts the general public would share that personal reaction when reading the material as a book. The excerpt underscores private affection vs public reception.
Out of the People by J. B. Priestley review
Suzanne Strouse reviews Priestley’s portrait of the British people, arguing that democracy must be earned through the creative, resilient masses. He cites the need for a vital social system offering maximum opportunity for creation and warns against utopian fantasies.
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J. B. Priestley
Harper & Bros
Suzanne Strouse
Walt Whitman
England
Priestley
Britain
British Commonwealth
Arizona Hens Lead Nation in Egg Laying Test
At the University of Arizona farm hens posted top national averages and records in the 20th egg laying test. Through November production rose 6.6 percent from a year earlier, with the Bagby Poultry Farm Rhode Island Reds in Sedalia, Missouri, contributing a 6.1 percent gain to the high pen. The top individual hen laid 57 eggs valued at 61.8 in the sixth lay period.
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Arizona
University of Arizona
Harry Embleton
University Poultry Husbandman
High
Bagby Poultry Farm
Sedalia
Rhode Island
Quote of hope amid war echoed by opponents to Hitler
A statement links England’s stance against the fears of Hitler’s Central Europe to a broader promise that wartime suffering may yield a greater good for oppressed peoples. The message frames conflict as a path to liberation and resilience.
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England
Hitler
Europe
Hen dies after egg trouble at Bagby Farm
Embleton said the hen owned by the Bagby farm in Sedalia died during the month of egg trouble. The high individual for last month was owned by George Vowell of Phoenix.
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Embleton
Bagby
Sedalia
George Vowell
Phoenix
Pheasant Story Ends With Husband’s Help in California
Mrs. Henry Stinchfield hanging laundry during open pheasant season sees a pheasant enter the yard. Without a license she fires a shot in the air. The bird flees to the garage. her husband returns with license and meat ax and completes the kill.
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Colusa
Calif
U.P
Henry Stinchfield
Pale eyes aid blackout driving says Sydney expert
A Sydney specialist states that people with pale blue or near albino eyes drive better in a blackout. He recommends cat's eye tests for men in fire police and ambulance services to identify those best suited for blackout driving.
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Sydney
Australia
U.P
Dollar Dinner Offer At El Corral Persuades Homemaker
The ad suggests skipping ham hocks and cabbage for a Pot Roast Baked Ham or Veal Marengo option. It promotes a Maid's Nite Out Dinner at El Corral and gives directions north on Campbell to River Road then 300 yards east.
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el Corral
Campbell
River Road
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