Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lunt who helped Woodrow Wilson revise the map of Europe; English Teacher William Reitzel (Wright) who wrote Progress of a Plough boy and Man Wants But Little. Among Haverford alumni: ''Tune Detective'' Sigmund Spaeth; Authors Christopher Morley and Logan Pearsall Smith; oldtime Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard Medical School...
Price 50? the copy, Esquire's first issue was composed of 116 large pages of shiny paper, 40 of them printed in color. Even more inviting than the handsome format of Esquire was its table of contents, in which each item had been selected not for artistic or literary merit but on the criterion of "an especial appeal for men." The first issue contained an article on marlin fishing by Ernest Hemingway; an article on Burlesque, called "I Am Dying, Little Egypt," by Gilbert Seldes; an interview with Nicholas Murray Butler by Artist Samuel Johnson-Woolf. Charles Hanson Towne...
...have been men's fashion arbiters for a dozen years, maintain correspondents all over Europe and the U. S. Editor of both magazines is young Arnold Gingrich, eight years out of the University of Michigan, who like his employers, keeps erratic hours but considers himself more the artist, less the businessman than they. In informal notes surrounding the brilliant table of contents in the first issue of Esquire, Editor Gingrich explained some of its purposes beyond offering an attractive medium to advertisers of men's accessories: "Esquire aims to become the common denominator of masculine interests...
PERHAPS it is a testament to the intellectual vitality of Gertrude Stein that no one has thus far been able to chart her titanic course through the letters of our time. She is herself inimical to critics, and one of her strongest aphorisms insists that the artist stands in need of appreciation, but never of criticism. This has been sufficient to deter many of the faculty; Sherwood Anderson, most apt among her pupils, stylizes, and Ernest Hemingway, imitates, her. In "Axel's Castle," Mr. Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes...
...parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle contempt for the people he wrote about. To the late William Bolitho he was "the greatest and sincerest pessimist American literature has yet produced." An owl-eyed, saturnine man, given to one-word epigrams...