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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 12 (Supplement)

Czechoslovakia has just given its citizenship to Herr Thomas Mann, the famous German author of “Buddenbrooks” and "The Magic Mountain.” He has been, with his brother Heinrich, an exile since the Nazi regime began. The Manns were the sons of a Lubeck merchant. Lubeck is the scene of "Buddenbrooks,” a vast novel which is a German parallel to “The Forsyte Saga." Those who have read it may be surprised to know that Herr Mann was only twenty-six when it appeared.

Mrs Ruth Adam, whose novel, “War on Saturday Week," has just appeared, began her writing career in much the game way as Lewis Carroll did. As a boy, in his father's rectory, he ran a family paper called “The Rectory Umbrella.” Mrs Adam, a country vicar’s daughter, edited “Vicarage News” with her small brother and sister. Copies were sold to Relatives and friends for a penny. She was bom twenty-eight years ago, and was an elementary school mistress before takin."; up Journalism. She has broadcast a good deal, as also has her husband, Mr Kenneth Adam.