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...statement on Fine Arts as a field of concentration which appeared in the CRIMSON Tuesday morning was obviously written by someone with a very superficial acquaintance with the department, probably a concentrator of only a few months, or perhaps it was written merely from hearsay. The nature of the authorship is betrayed by misstatements concerning the nature of the work in the department which I hope you will permit me to correct in your columns...
...Martin editorials because they were "lousy." The Martin editorials have been resumed since then and E. S. Martin should reinstate reference to Life in his 25-line biography in Who's Who-a biography which lists 17 books of verse and essays, and which notes his authorship of "The Editor's Easy Chair" department in Harper's. He goes to Life's office punctually once a week to deliver his editorials, spends much of his time in his Manhattan house which is specially wired for him to plug in, in almost any corner, a device...
Observers to whom this proposal seemed at least interesting and worthy of cogitating, felt that its authorship was unfortunate. For like so many, ideas that have emanated from beneath the Brown Derby, it did not appear to be taken seriously. It occasioned no enthusiasm among the Democratic diners. The men who write newspaper editorials throughout the land blurbed polite nothings about it next day, or dismissed it out of hand as "another of Smith's amateurish suggestions." European ears pricked up with interest, but no impartial and potent U. S. economist bothered to voice an opinion, except ever-vocal...
...Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang Archbishop of Canterbury admitted authorship of a "highly romantic" novel in his youth. Said he: "Nothing would induce me to reveal the name of that dreadful book [written under a pseudonym]. I had forgotten all about it until Hugh Walpole mentioned it before a meeting the other night...
...Door. When you have read them both you may ponder the discrimination of judges: if you are wise, you will throw no stones. The Opening of a Door is an ex-i raordinarily good first novel, but any committee might be pardoned for deciding that its subject, manner, authorship had too Julian-Greenish a tinge to make the widest appeal...