The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-24
b YWALTER d. HICKMAN


b YWALTER d. HICKMAN
A LWAYS had the feeling that
N some fine day real news
paperman would write truthfully OF
what he does, feels and thinks.
That is exactly what Max Miller
waterfront reporter of the Scripps-
Howard San Diego Sun has done in
Il Cover the Waterfront published
by E. p. Dutton g. Co., and sells for
$3.50.
1t is so freshly full of the ocean
swordfish, Holsters both on land and
sea. of what apermen actually
do and think that it becomes a real
JOY.
This book is so intimate that one
morning at o'clock 1 went into
my kitchen, put some coffee in the
pot. sat on a high red stool and
while slipping cup after cup OF coffee
1 played the game of make-believe
that Miller was just talking his
book to me-
Try that combination Of the book
and coffee and you will have grand
adventure while reading L Cover
the Waterfront,
Miller admits that Il have been
here so long that even the sea gulls
must recognize me. They must pass
the worl along from generation to
generation, from egg to egg"
Isn't that a nice introduction to
a real newspaper guy who will stand
being called the best waterfront
reporter" but kicks up his heels and
wells murder when referred to as
the veteran waterfront reporter. "
That's really too much. That l
agree.
You will love his personal en-
counters with Jack Dempsey and
the beautiful Estelle Taylor You
will find a selfish side to Charlie
Chaplin. You will discover that
Laura La Plante had a terrible time
filming THE Midnight Sun"
You will get first hand intro
duction to Charles Lindbergh
MILLER calls him Slim before Lind
bergh was yanked away from the
earth jewellers and sanctified into
membership with the Deity" And
you will meet many others, even in
Guiding Babe Ruth.
You do not have to be in the
newspaper business to enjoy this
book. am sure you will love it.
I am wild over it as we'll as my
black coffee at 3 in the morning.
n
~ Fable for Wives" written by
Robert Mcclure and published by
Doubleday, Doran ($2) is "a fable
for those pretty. clever, discontinued
Young wives and brisk young Amer
loan husbands, who danced and
rolfed and loved in those halcyon
wears when money came easily and
went fast-before the market
crashed"
The manuscript Of Lady Eleanor
Smiths new novel, "Ballerina," has
been received by the Bobbs-Merrill
Company. 1t is being prepared for
publication early in July and will be
the first novel by Lady Eleanor
Smith to be brought out in this
country before it is published in
England.
ERIENDS of Charlie Chan, the
inin1itable Chinese detective,
will be glad to know that he will
appear again on July 26, publication
date of the new Earl Derr BiggerS
story. Keeper of the Keys For
the first time since THE Chinese
Parrot" Charles activities are con-
fined entirely to this country,
centering around Reno, New and
Lake Tahoe, Cal, and what is more
important-Charlie is very much
in evidence from the first to the last
page.
Since the publication of Yardley-
grams. his game book based on the
ciphering Of code messages, Major
Herbert o. Yardley, of The Amer
lean Black Chamber" fame, has
been named Honorary President of
FIVE Cipher Clubs in different parts
of the country. The clubs we're
formed as the result of the interest
in working out code messages
stimulated by the publication Of
'sYardleygrams." Two of them we're
organized by groups of high school
boys.
John Gunther. author of The
Bright Nemesis" "A Thriller for
Adults" is the Vienna correspond
ent of the Chicago Daily News.
At the time of its publication in
England, The London Herald said,
"'The Bright Nemesis is the most
extraordinary thriller in the oldest
setting and with the queerest de-
tectiye ! have met-most ingenious,
exciting and convincing" Gunther,
a Chicagoan by birth, is already we'll
known in this country for his
articles in The Nation and The New
Republic, and his earlier novel
'The Red Pavilion"