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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Thompson was never married to a U. S. President, but her writings receive almost as wide attention throughout the land as do those of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Miss Thompson's husband, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, in his most famed book, Main Street, reached fewer U. S. voters than Miss Thompson reaches daily in her syndicated column On The Record (audience: 7,000,000). Last week Dorothy Thompson picked up a phrase by Herbert Hoover-"Ideas cannot be cured with battleships"-and retorted: "Ideas can certainly be spread and suppressed by the sword...
...Court's opinion was a copyright case with a unique twist. In 1932 Pearson and Allen put out their second book, More Merry-Go-Round, which contained, among other things, the statements that Justice James Clark McReynolds was "Apparently . . . both stupid [and] lazy," and that "for a man of his sheer ugliness of disposition he has come far." Also in the book was a sketch of Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, much of which was lifted from a defunct magazine called The Washingtonian. Pearson had edited The Washingtonian for two issues, and obtained permission from Rixey Smith, author...
...Banister is seeking $1 for each page of the lifted story in every copy of the book sold, or about $60,000, but will probably get much less. Soon after More Merry-Go-Round appeared, its publishers failed, and the two authors never got any of the $12,000 they claim were due them. Counsel fees have put them out an additional $5,000 at least...
...human species the male is more logical than the female. He is also more zoological. Beyond that the contrast ceases, for both are descended from the ape, both think they could write a great book if they only had the time, and both think they could act if they only had the opportunity. The following are typical extracts from any prominent producer's correspondence...
Debussy: Preludes, Book I (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 14 sides). A sheaf of Impressionist Debussy's subtlest miniatures played by his best living interpreter...