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It Seem to Me HEYWOODMJN ASHINGTON. Doc. 7.—“ThP name is Lewis—- ▼ V John L.'' This was the opening of a famous sperrh hv the president of the United Mine Workers before one of the various boards in the days of NR A. The name is likely to become increasingly familiar to millions of Americans during the next few months, for the lines already are being drawn for one of the most important battles along the economic front which this country has seen in recent years. The issue between industrial unionism and craft unionism is not in any sense a pri-

vate or technical fight. The issue involves vast numbers of citizens who at the moment have only the slightest inkling of what t is all about. But it touches them for all that, because if John L. wins his fight trade unionism in the United States will double or triple its membership within a year's time. . This, of course, is a statement of opinion, but it is difficult to deny the assertion that the enlistment of workers in the mass production and unorganized industries of the nation will be vastly stimulated if the industrial plan prevails.

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Bv some quirk the industrial union has been identified as a radical innovation, but John L. Lewis is certainly by no stretch of the imagination a leftwing leader. Up to a year or so ago he was anathema to the radicals. Now he has become a knight in shining armor. Labor politics makes even stranger bedfellows than Republican and Democratic campaigns. Os course, both Lewis and his former foes who now follow his leadership have been brought together by the logic of events. a a a He Has a Silrcr Tongue, Too TpRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT has been fond of a comparing himself to a quarter back who calls the plays according to the situation just in front of him. Lewis is more like the coach who sits on the players’ bench and wigwags to the team which signals to call. I doubt that he wants any titular leadership, beyond the post he now holds. It will certainly be his earnest effort to strive for victory within the ranks of the American Federation of Labor itself. A split may come, but not before every effort for unification has been exhausted. At the Atlantic City convention of the A. F. of L. Lewis floored a man with his fist, but he is a persuasionist at heart and he would rather do it with words. In spite of the fact that the vote went heavily against his side at that meeting, this not altogether neutral observer believes that Lewis is the wheelhorse on whom to bet. For instance, he is one of the finest orators in America, and his chief lieutenant, Charles P. Howard, of the Typographical Union, is no slouch, either. It is certainly within the realm of possibility that Lewis may take to the air, to which he is not altogether a stranger. It is a good radio voice, and there is no one in the camp of William Green quite competent to copper him. *; u a a Hewing lo One Line THERE is no personal equation whatsoever in the struggle between these labor leaders. The fight will be fought wholly upon the issues. If my surmises are correct John L. Lewis is not likely to be stampeded into a rash of activity. His will be a cumulative campaign, and, in the beginning at any rate, he will be hesitant to include issues which seem to him outside his immediate objective. This inquiring reporter undertook to draw him out on the question of his feeling about an independent labor party, and your correspondent learned precisely nothing. Mr. Lewis didn’t say “Yes” and he didn’t say “No.” His attitude was much more nearly, "Is there any point in discussing that now?” Whether this is the part of wisdom or not I don’t know r . I think it is not wise, but Lewis is an old hand and ooviously intends to stick to his knitting. Possibly it is less than accurate to paint his tactics as entirely conservative. He wall persuade and persuade up to a certain point and then suddenly lash out. In addition to the gift of oratory he holds a good right hook in reserve. I don’t think he's going to swing right now. I don’t know when he's going to swing, but if I were his adversary in the ring, I would be a little worried.

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

AS people we have been fairly cursed with faddists. We have educational cults, faith healing cults, religious cults, and nobody knows how many more peculiar promotional systems. And there are dietary faddists who believe that eating of more white bread, more wheat, more fruit, or more raisins is necessary to a healthful life. To be sure, the starchy foods, wheat, corn, rice and potatoes, are useful sources of food for the body. Bread, especially, gives a feeling of satisfaction, following iis eating, that is important in any suitable diet. Those who live sedentary lives, or do not use their muscles much, should not be urged to eat much more carbohydrates than is necessary for them. If they eat more, they are likely to become fat. But we need not tell such persons that eating white bread will poison them or give them cancer. tt a tt WE all know that whole wheat bread contains ingredients which are not found in white bread. The germ of the wheat supplies minerals and vitamins which are eliminated from white flour. Yet few. if any, Americans live on white bread alone, and there is no evidence that the substances which can oe derived from the germ of the wheat are missing from the diet, if the diet is fairly well balanced and varied. If you like white bread, therefore, there is no reason why you should not eat it. If the savages do not perish of cancer, the reason is that they do not live long enough to die of this disease. Cancer is essentially a disease of advanced years. Civilized man has a life expectancy at birth of 60 years, ihe savage has a life expectancy at birth of about .15 years. Most of the people who die of cancer ere more than 45. Obviously, when the savages cease to die from the infectious diseases and similar conditions which used to carry off civilized man. and live longer, they, too. will have their proportion of deaths from cancer, whether they cat white bread or whole wheat bread. The answer to the deficiencies of white bread is not to stop eating it, but to supply those deficiencies by taking suitable amounts of milk and leafy vegetables. These will supply the calcium, the mineral salts, and the vitamins which mav be lacking in white flour.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ -

r | ''HE pituitary gland, tiny ductless gland no larger J- than the kernel of a hazelnut, is responsible for the normal development and functioning of all other ductless glands i the bodv. So says Dr. B A. Houssay. world-famous physiologist of the University of Buenos Aires, who is now a visitor in this country. The pituitary gland, located in the head, beneath the brain to which it is attached by a tiny stalk, has been called the "master gland,” because of its profound influence upon the other glands of the body. u n a DR. HOUSSAY. who has been one of the pioneers in t) e study of this gland, indicates that its control is nore potent and complete than has been previous! thought. I interviewed Dr. Koussav at the Western Reserve University Medical School where he stopped for a day on his trip across the country. "If the pituitary gl.-,nd fails to function properly, then all of the other glands fail to develop properly and fail to function properly,” he said. "If the pituitary gland is too active, it causes all the other glands to become too active.”

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LISTENING TO HITLER’S GERMANY a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Private and Parochial Schools Go as Nazis Regiment Education

\ human, comprehensive picture of citizens and soldiers of the “New Germany” in the making is presented in the following article, one of a series of exclusive, uncensored dispatches which famed Correspondent Frazier Hunt is sending. BY FRAZIER HUNT (Copyright. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.) gEKLIN, Dec. 7.—At the gate of the Labor Camp near Nauen, west of Berlin, the 18-year-old sentinel gave me a snappy "spade salute.” The spade was polished and sharp, and I was fearful for a moment that he might cut off an ear. But he didn’t. He’d practiced up on it before. I walked on up the path toward the square, with the low, gray barracks stretched out on three sides. By the office two more camp guards gave me the visiting fireman’s welcome. Years ago. I used to be able to do a mean “manual of arms” with an old Springfield, but even in my palmiest days I doubt if I could have done it with a lowly spade. But in Hitler’s Germany even a spade takes on a soldierly quality. And no high private of the old Prussian Guards could have been more earnest and solemn than those boys playing soldier with their bright spades. a a a HERE in Germany there is still an imbred feeling for discipline and regimentation. Put a German in a uniform—brown, black, green or gray—and the spirit of Frederick the Great covers him like a misty November fog. Everywhere about the spotless camp and even out in the stateowned field several miles away, where the 150 boys of this Camp No. 395 were digging a ditch and putting in new tile, this actuality of unbending discipline was evident. It was almost quitting time when I reached the field, and I watched the boys line up and march off singing an old Austrian army song to words of their own making. At a farm building a quarter mile away they mounted their bicycles and pedaled back to camp and their 3 o’clock dinner. No trucks rolled them up and down the roads; each camp had its own stable of bicycles. It was cheap transportation, and besides it was good to harden leg muscles.

Van Devanter, Indiana Native, Only Taft Supreme Court Appointee; Butler Least Colorful of Justices; Cardozo Is Learned Legalist

This is the last of four articles on the justices of the Supreme Court. BY HERBERT LITTLE WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Willis Van Devanter has been a Federal judge for 32 of his 76 years. He has been a Supreme Court justice for 25 years. He could have retired at 70 at his full pay of $20,000 a year. But he didn’t. He just went on working, preventing first President

Hoover and then President Roosevelt from appointing a younger man. Last year he wrote only one opinion, compared to the 25 of the prolific Justice Cardozo. But in the court's private confer ences where cases are settled, his voice is reported powerful in argument. His

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legal experience goes farther back in years on the bench than that of any other justice. He is one of the conservative bloc, but once in a long time he departs from its ranks. Recently he sided with the Chief Justice and the three liberals to order an accounting of assets in a "blue sky” securities case. Justice Van Devanter is ihe most stern and forbidding of the

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The personal popularity of Adolf Hitler with an overwhelming number of Germans may enable his dictatorship to survive an economic collapse.

Discipline, sound bodies, and a sense of the “oneness” of German youth and of their responsibility to the state and land, were the things the six months’ hard training were giving these 18-year-olds, planted in the 1400 labor camps over Germany. Each six months at least 200.000 “graduates” of these work camps will be shunted directly into one-year intensive army training. Here they will not only be turned into soldiers but into citiafens of the New Germany. A young man of 21 who has just finished the officer training course that starts with three months’ service as a plain soldier and then rapidly pushes him through the various grades and duties, explained to me at a lunch table the subtle effect of army training on German youth. “From the time I was 16 I had been in the Hitler youth movement,” he began. “My people were against it and I was almost expelled from school. There could have been no more ardent or romantic National Socialist boy than I was. Then I went into the first of the work camps. Here I discovered a little of what disciplined service and hard unifying work for your country really was. I was lost in a machine that I vaguely knew was making me into something

nine in appearance. He has a slender, severe face, worn with many years. His voice is still strong in delivering opinions or in asking pointed questions of lawyers arguing cases. He asks more such questions than most of the others. He is deadly serious, and never smiles or jokes on the bench, where he sits on the Chief Justice’s immediate right. a a *; A native of Indiana, he attended Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University and Cincinnati Law School, and he was admitted to the bar before he went out West at 25, to grow up with the country. He settled in Cheyenne, Wyo., in ♦ those wild and woolly days and served as city attorney, member of a committee to revise the territorial law, and member of the territorial Legislature. He took part in Republican poltics. and within five years President Harrison made him chief justice of the territorial Supreme Court. He resigned and served as Republican state chairman, and attended the 1896 party convention as a delegate. Present McKinley named him an assistant attorney general in 1897, and Theodore Roosevelt promoted him to the Circuit Court of Appeals in 1903. In 1910 Taft, who was in the class ahead of him ac Cincinnati Law' School, named

national bridge tournament. You hear hands discussed that were played at tournaments years ago. A number of inter-city teams have been playing in this tournament, pairs made up of players from different cities. Aaron Frank and Morry Glick, Cleveland, for instance,! played with a Chicago pair. Mr. Frank was elected as one of the outstanding players of 1934. However, this was his first major tournament this year. Mr. Glick is a newcomer in the tournament field. But he can handle the play of the cards in expert style. Here is a hand that he played in the recent Greater Cleveland tournament. Against six no trump, the pack of spades was opened. Mr. Glick held the South cards. The trick was won in dummy with the queen. Five rounds of clubs were cashed immediately, declarer discarding three hearts from dummy, East and West both followed, the deuce of diamonds was played. West winning with the king. All .West could do was return

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different than I had been before. Then the army took me.” a a a 'T'HE young officer looked up at me and smiled. “It wasn't long before I realized that this Work Camp preliminary was little more than a kindergarten course in discipline and service. “Slowly I began to see that all the marching and speech-making and chest-pounding of both the Hitler Youth and the old Brown Shirts was not the real stuff. All that helped, but it was the army that made me a true German.” After the average boy finishes his Work Camp service and then his year in the army, he can enter the Brown Shirts and become a member of the official party. He is a reserve soldier, nevertheless, and for three or four weeks a year he is called to the colors for special training. The spirit of the army hovers over him like a shadow. In a way I have put my horse ahead of my cart in this attempt to show the education of youth under national socialism. I should really start with the 6-year-old child. According to the new educational plan—which, at best, it will take several years to put into effect—all German children from 6 to 9 are to be sent to the same schools.

him to the Supreme Court. Taft joined him on the Court in 1921, as Chief Justice, and served by his side until his death in 1930. Justice Van Devanter is the only remaining Taft appointee on the court, which includes Justices McReynolds and Brandeis from the Wilson era, Sutherland and Butler of the Harding era, Stone of Coolidge’s Administration, and Roberts and Cardozo, Hoover appointees. a a tt PIERCE BUTLER of St. Paul is the least colorful of the nine mortal but long-lived Supreme Court justices. He is 69 years old and he has a sense of humor. He votes on the conservative side on all split decisions. He is a nominal Democrat like his conservative ally, Justice Mcßeynolds, but a long way from Roosevelt democracy, as his votes on recent social and economic legislation suggest. His background before his appointment by Harding in 1922 was corporation law practice, mostly with railroads. He was counsel for the St. Paul road from 1899 to 1905. He was a representative in Washington for the railroads. Justice Butler was born on a farm in Dakota County, Minnesota, and studied law after earning a B. S. degree from Carleton College. Northfield, Minn. He w’as admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1888. but his official biography lists no law degrees for him

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A LL private schools are to be abolished. At 9 the child, regardless of parents or wealth, is to be given severe IQ tests as to mental capacity. Those who receive high marks—about 5 per cent—are to be shunted into secondary schools until they are 18 years old. Then comes the Labor Camp and the year’s army training, and then each year some 10 per cent of the most superior of these chosen boys are sent to the professional schools and universities. But what happens to the 95 per cent ■who at 9 fail to qualify for “brain workers?” The plan is that they shall all be sent to the Elementary Schools until they are 14. Then exceptionally bright youths, overlooked when they mere 9, can be shunted over to the brain workers’ division. From 14 to 16 these manual workers continue their regular studies, and then from 16 to 18 they attend the various trade schools. Next come the Work Camps and the military service, and then three year’s trade apprenticeship. a u a THE chart would have the manual workers marry when around 22 and the brain workers at 25. In theory neither wealth or family position or influence is to have

until 1923, when Carleton gave him a LL. D., and 1931, when Amherst conferred a similar degree. tt tt T TE is short and plump—he and ■*- Justice Stone are the only justices who are not tall or slender. His face is round and his head bald. Justice Butler is fond of the social life of Washington, in which he is active. He likes to joke and talk, and often does so with his neighboring justices on the bench. In valuation and utility rate cases he is a leader on the conservative side, waiting many of the opinions which have aroused liberal attacks on the court in the last decade. In some big railroad cases involving valuations, however, he does not take part in the court’s decisions, because of his fight as a corporation lawyer against lower freight rates in the courts and before the Interstate Commerce Commission. This does not vent him from participating in rate cases involving other utilities. tt t$ tt AT the southern end of the Supreme Court’s long mahogany bar sits a small man with a big head of straight white hair, whose pallid face and stooped posture denote a scholar. He is Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York City, one of America’s most learned legalists. He has honorary doctor of laws degrees from 14 universities and colleges, most of them conferred before his accession to the Supreme Court. Justice Cardozo was appointed by President Hoover, despite his great reputation as a liberal, under pressure from Senators Borah and Wagner after Senate opposition was organized to Republican jurists who had been NEW DEAL TRAILS IN LITERARY DIGEST POLL Popular in South, Losing in East and West, Is Claim. f>y United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Five Southern states are expressing approval of the New Deal while 13 states,! mainly in the East and West,' are expressing disapproval, according to the third tally of the 10,000.009-bal-i lot poll of the Literary Digest announced today. Pro-New Deal votes total 187.156 for a percentage of 44.4. Opposition votes were 234.404. or 55.6 per cent. First reports from California, Massachusetts and South Dakota, all voting against the New Deal, and from Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, all favoring it, were included in today’s report.

the slightest influence in determining whether a child shall be doomed forever as a manual worker or a brain worker. “It is best for the child in the long run,” Dr. Lotelmann, head of all the Secondary Schools under the new plan, explained to me. “There is nothing as sad as ambition thwarted through pure incapacity.” The plan is even more severe in the case of girls. At 9 the tests send all but 5 per cent into the Elementary School channel for manual workers. At 14 these girls put in a year in a camp, or if they are city girls they are sent to a farm. Then come two years in a trade school, and at 17 they all must go to a girls’ work camp for six months. The lucky 5 per cent of chosen girls spend at 15 a year in a camp or home. Then for some comes three years in a nursing school or in semi-professional training. For the ordinary girl even of this original fortunate 5 per cent there is three years in a household training school. At 19 all must go for six months to a girls’ work camp. Each year a few dozen are chosen to go to the universities. To put through this vast revolutionary educational scheme all private and parochial schools and many free higher schools will have to disappear, it is regimented education raised to the nth degree.

proposed. Justice Cardozo is a Democrat nominally, and votes consistently with Justices Brandeis and Stone. a a a IT was Justice Cardozo who wrote a separate opinion in the NR.A Schechter case pointing out how Congress could legislate on codes within the court’s definition of constitutionality—advice which President Roosevelt did not take. Justice Cardozo is 65, a member of a Portuguese Jewish fam-

ily which dates back to Revolutionary War service, a graduate of Columfca University, and former chief judge of New York state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals. His philosophy and legal attitudes parallel in many ways those of the legal giant whom he succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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Personally, he is humble, genial, unmarried and uninterested in social functions. Study and books are his loves. He has written several notable published studies on the law. • His health and strength are not of the best, and he spent part of last summer recovering from an illness. His voice does not carry well in the high-vaulted new Su- : preme Court room. Lawyers admire the language of his opinions for its delicate touch and apt phrasing, but laymen find that he tends toward obscure and inverted sentences when philosophical concepts are under discussion. THE END MOVING PERMIT LAW CONSIDERED BY KERN Committee of 17 Trucking Firms Seeks to Place Responsibility. Consideration of a proposed ordinance to regulate* trucksters engaged in household moving has been promised by Mayor Kern following a conference with a committee headed by Ward B. Hiner, which he said represented 17 trucking companies. l Tentative provisions of the measure include issuance of permits for moving, responsibility of movers in ■ case of fire and accidents and brake ! inspection. Chief Monissey. who sat in on the 1 conference, expressed approval of j the ordinance, declaring it would be a deterrent to moving stolen propj erty and would enable police to keep '•doter cluck on wanted penon*

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fair Enough wmlim ROME. Dec. 7.—At 1 o’clock on my first day in Rome I went down to the grill to meet th® manager of the Ambassador Hotel. His name is Frederico Rota, and he holds the title of commcndatore something of which we have no equivalent in America. It fheans. however, that the man has received a nod from the government. Connie Mack would be a commendatore in the United States. His wife is an American, of Philadelphia, and they are friends of the Gene Tunneys and the Barney Gimbels. In fact, it was Com-

mendatore Rota who managed the social festivities at Tunney’s wedding in Rome. He has toured the United States more extensively than most traveling drummers of the present class whose cruising radius is narrowly restricted, and he knows the geography of the country better than 90 per cent of Americans. About 12 years ago he went over as a member of a party of European hotel magnates and was present in the Copley Plaza in Boston at the dinner in which the orchestra played as a compliment to the

Italian delegation, thinking it was their national anthem, the "Finiculi. Finicula." Neapolitan song about the young fel ow who took his girl out on a Sunday afternoon and for lack of the price of a bottle of w.ne and a sandwich took her riding up Vesuvius on the roller coaster railway. tt tt tt Showing ’Em What’s What '-pHE orchestra had played "God Save the King” A for the English and "Marseillaise” for th® French, and when they played "Finiculi, Finicula” that was equivalent to playing "Alexanders Ragtime Band ’ as the American national anthem. Foi the group at the table there was a crate of bathtub Scotch which was being kept out of sight in deference to the Eighteenth Amendment. Wlth each hand Mr. Rota grabbed a quart bv the neck and came up using them like Indian clubs to beat time and sang the true anthem of Italy amid cheers and to the consternation of his hosts. He was pretty cross about it. But at that he shouldn’t have been, for there was an occasion at the long convention of Democrats in Madison Square Garden at the height of the Ku-Klux Klan foolishness when a Tammany orchestra, meaning no harm whatever, drove Southern delegates wild by playing as a comlimentary piece not their sacred "Dixie,” but “Marching Through Georgia.” The commendatore is not sore any more, but he says that, thanks to Mussolini and the New Deal of the last 13 years in Italy, the Italian national anthem is well known throughout the civilized world, although, to be quite honest. I do not know the name of it myself and recognize it by ear only. a a a The Lions of the Human Race AND still I think that “Finiculi, Finicula” is an expressive Italian song and one of the gayest ever written, even though a German composed it I think “Alexander’s Ragtime Band" is a good song,’ too, and more in the American spirit than “The Star-Spangled Banner.” and that George M. Cohen’s “Over There” is the most magnificent piece of American bombast ever written and, with its honest boastfulness, the most characteristic American song to European ears. That boastfulness which formerly was associated with the American character has now become cringing timidity by comparison with the spirit of Italians who think they are the lions of the human race today and of Germans who knock off work several times a day to beat their chests, glower at themselves in their looking glasses and bellow their challenge to the whole wide world. Meanwhile, the Japanese, saying little, just proceed to take over everything that isn’t nailed down and to prepare for the impending battle with the white race for world supremacy. This should be a pushover for the Japanese and their subordinate yellow races if they bide their time, because if they let nature take her course white people will tear their own hearts out in grubby squabbles over trifles. The Italians are going to start it off in a short time by taking a punch at England. Every Italian declares with a finality which makes it reckless and useless to enter into a logical discussion that Mussolini is the greatest man in the world today and one of the greatest the human race has ever produced. I hope that as long as I remain in Italy I will have the self-control to abstain from logical discussion. I met a doorman in front of the Miami Biltmore Hotel at Coral Gables one morning last year who had a black eye that looked like a football bladder. and I asked him what had happened. "I was talking,” he said, “when I should have been listening.”

“-ITICTORIOUS TROY” finds John Masefield goV ing down to the sea again—and. as is usually the case, producing a fine, stirring bock to delight the heart of any stay-at-home who likes to read of the brave old days of square-rigged ships. Mr. Masefield's new book (MacMillan; 52.50) is a novel telling about an English ship in the great Australian grain trade. Coming across the southern Pacific the vessel is overtaken by a typhoon. The skipper, bending the elbow a bit too freely, fails to recognize his danger and refuses to take proper precautions. Asa result, when the storm strikes, the ship is immediately dismasted, half a dozen men—including the two mates —are washed overboard, and the captain is knocked about by a wave and given three broken limbs. o ■** a WHEN the storm at last passes, the ship is utterly helpless and the only person who can take command is an apprentice boy in his mid 'teens. How this lad takes over, gets the ship under a jury rig, ana finally brings her safe to port makes the story-and a swell one, too, as I believe I mentioned. Incidentally, Mr. Basefield's description of this typhoon is one of the roost exciting bits of writing in all the literature of the sea. You can fairly feel that storm, as he gives it to you; feel it, and see it, and hear it as well.

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Collectors of Thomas Wolfe first editions should not miss the Christmas number of the Bookbnyer, published by the Scribner book store in New York. In it Mr. Wolfe has a short essay on “What a Writer Reads.” Other Scribner authors discuss other subjects. Douglas Southall Freeman, author of “R. E. Lee.” writes on biography; S. S. Van Dine on hobbies: William Lyon Phelps on belles lettres; Mark Sullivan on Americana, and Major John W. Thomason Jr., on adventure. The monthly is sent to customers and any one else who has a genuine interest in books and authors. Ursula Parrott sailed for the West Indies for Cosmopolitan magazine Thanksgiving Day. She will stay in San Domingo until Dec. 12. then fly to Antigua, where she will take a boat to Bermuda to spend Christmas with her son Mark. She will return to New York. George Bye has just sold a novel called “American Acres" to Cosmopolitan. The author is Louis* Redfield Peattie, the wife of Donald Culross Peattie, who just received the Limited Editions Club gold medal lor his “Almanac lor Modems.”

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