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...that the most useful and fitting plan of all would be to establish a group of scholarships and fellowships to meet the increase in living expenses which the House Plan has brought about. There are numerous precedents for such action, the Lionel de Jersey Harvard. Victor Emmanuel Chapman, and Bayard Cutting Fellowships in particular. They lack concreteness, perhaps, but there may be some among the alumni to whom a memorial is something more than the mere piling of one brick on top of another in a successful attempt to outdo in uselessness all previous war memorials. A World War Memorial...
...peddling the proud Worlds from door to door of Manhattan's leading publishers. They had approached Adolph Ochs of the Times, Ogden Reid of the Herald Tribune, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis of the Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, also, it was rumored, their former Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, backed by potent Democratic tycoons. No sale...
...prospective World-Telegram; and times were at their very worst. But mostly they thought of the papers which, however the merit of their news columns might fluctuate, always boasted in their morning sheet "the two most distinguished pages in American journalism"-the editorial page, whereon David Graham Phillips, Herbert Bayard Swope, Walter Lippmann and the late Frank Irving Cobb had swung crusaders' swords; and the "opp. ed." or feature page, to which sophisticates of a decade had turned for the brilliancies of Alexander Woollcott (drama), Harry Hansen (books), Heywood Broun (who went to the Telegram three years ago following...
...Ruth Putnam, authoress, League of Nations official. She had six brothers: the late Major George Haven, Civil War veteran, longtime president of G. P. Putnam's Sons; Herbert, Librarian of Congress; Irving, president of G. P. Putnam's Sons; Kingman, retired Manhattan marine insurance broker; the late Bayard Taylor; the late John Bishop, father of the present George Palmer Putnam...
Paid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Except for its concluding intricacies, worked out along lines immemorially established for stage police departments and district attorneys' offices, Paid is an effective program piece. It is Bayard Veiller's old play, Within the Law, modernized by Charles MacArthur as a vehicle for Joan Crawford. For some reason, principally because of her success in party-pictures and because there are already more than enough emotional actresses in the picture business, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has shown some reluctance in letting Joan Crawford play straight parts. This policy is puzzling because she can hold...