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February 4, 1939

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Featured Pick

fiction

Fables for Our Time—II

James Thurber

Part 2 of the author’s classic series, from 1939: “There was once a lion who coveted an eagle’s wings.”

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SCHMOOZE AND THE I.L.G.

Hyman Goldbert

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Lady Bountiful--I

Arthur Bartlett