Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prodigy been so unscrupulously exploited. After his amazing debut, Hofmann was booked for 80 concerts, played 52 before his health broke under the strain. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children intervened. The late Alfred Corning Clarke, wealthy Manhattan realtor, donated $50.000 so that the boy could go home to Poland, study in peace. Luck came on a visit to Berlin where young Hofmann played for Anton Rubinstein, became the master's only pupil...
...matter what art critics may think, art dealers know that, as far as the sale of expensive color reproductions is concerned, the three most popular artists in the world are van Gogh, Cezanne and Maxfield Parrish. Daybreak, Parrish's famed picture showing a boy and girl against a rising sun, has sold over 200,000 copies. Parrish Blue is a well recognized name for the vivid electric blue skies that he has affected for nearly two generations...
...will of their former sweetheart leaving them the care of her offspring who proves to be a very pretty girl and a good one even if she does have some shadowy connections with the underworld. Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets Girl; boy loses girl; boy gets girl"; wholesome, mild and quite safe. The humor is light and fairly well paced. It's nice quiet reassuring amusement with a mellowness apparently aimed straight at the maiden aunt section of the audience, which must be considerable...
Meeting the Crimson's ace, Charlie Hutter, in the 50 and 100 yard free style events, will be Eddie Wood. Hutter, hard pressed by Mat Chrostowski in the Providence Boy's Club meet 50-yard sprint, broke the University pool record, formerly held by Wood and Albert Schwartz of Northwestern, with the time of 23 2-5 seconds. Wood, without being pressed, has done a leisurely 23 4-5 seconds...
...hills. Net result of these clues: the no-longer-so-nervous reader forms the opinion that Kenneth Patchen is a poeticule. Twelve years ago Nathalia Crane was a child prodigy. Only daughter of an unremarkable Brooklyn couple, she published her first book of "poetry" (The Janitor's Boy) when she was 10. Thereafter, in fairly rapid succession, she wrote and published three more books of verse, a stilted novel. An unknown benefactor offered to send her abroad and put her through college if she would not publish anything more until after graduation. Last week, now 22 and a graduate...