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This week Iran's 60-year-old, 6-ft., grey-mustached King of Kings celebrates a coronation anniversary. Twelve years ago on April 5, the former Persian Cossack officer, born of middle-class landowners on the shores of the Caspian Sea, placed a specially-made crown of diamonds, emeralds and rubies on his own head...
Thin-faced, argumentative Communist Granville ("Granny") Hicks, 36, had been a storm centre before, for he had been fired from a teaching job. New Hampshire-born, a Yankee moralist, Granny Hicks was graduated with highest honors from Harvard ('23) and its Divinity School, taught Biblical literature and English at Smith College for three years, and assisted Harvard's famed Professor Bliss Perry before going to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an associate professor of English in 1929. By 1935, with The Great Tradition, a Marxist survey of U. S. literature since the Civil War, and a stream of contributions...
Last week the Guild's most persistent critic and its largest champion met head-on in public debate in Manhattan. Before a hostile crowd of 700, mostly Manhattan Guildsmen, up stood Brooklyn-born Arthur T. Robb, editor of Editor & Publisher, conservative journal of the trade. His opponent: mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun, national Guild president. The clash was advertised as the press debate of the year, but the forensics fizzled, for Mr. Robb spoke from a fact-jammed cranium, while Mr. Broun replied from an overstuffed heart...
Country people in England (where Dr. Bazett was born and educated) and around Philadelphia (where he teaches) still dose themselves and their children with sulfur & molasses (brimstone & treacle) every spring to thin their blood. In extreme cases they apply bloodsucking leeches. By the medical profession in general, bloodletting is considered even more out-of-date than doses of brimstone & treacle. Yet precisely such venesection, suggested modern Dr. Bazett. might be a helpful prophylactic against the blood torrents of spring...
Calm, blue-eyed Playwright Clifford Henshaw Goldsmith is 38, was born in East Aurora, N. Y. where his shirts hung on the same clothesline as Roycrofter Elbert Hubbard's, now lives in a secluded farmhouse near Paoli, Pa. After a tiny role in Lightnin' and a start in cinema cut short when he tumbled down some false stairs and upset three cameras. Goldsmith joined a chautauqua. found himself while pinch-hitting for a humorous health lecturer, became a health lecturer on his own, talked on nutrition before hundreds of high schools. He pieced What a Life together...