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...advanced courses are English Fb, which will be given by Edwin Honig, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, and concern short fiction and poetry; English Xb, to be given in two sections, by Gerald W. Brace, visiting professor of English and Monroe Engel, assistant professor of English, and concerning long fiction or personal narrative; and English Yb, playwrighting, to be given by Robert H. Chapman, assistant professor of English...
...rising tide of moral laxity in movies," and called for a revitalization of the aims and purposes of the National Legion of Decency, the Motion Picture Association vigorously protested to Congress that movie censorship had "seriously eroded" the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression. ¶ In Detroit, Brace Beemer, radio's Lone Ranger for 20 years, turned a couple of six-shooters on the heroes of movie westerns because they are too "pure" and "slicked up." "It's a shame the way western heroes have been painted for kids," Beemer complained. "Sure, no smoking or drinking...
...then " -that made possible her sure but slow acceptance as a Roman Catholic saint (she was finally canonized in 1920). The rehabilitation trial is now again brought to light by Régine Pernoud, chief archivist of the Museum of French History (The Retrial of Joan of Arc; Harcourt, Brace; $4.75). The record, on the whole, backs popular opinion, which regards the judges who sent Joan to the stake as villains. It speaks of English bribery and pressure, Joan's imprisonment in a secular rather than an ecclesiastical prison, her lack of counsel, her inability to get an appeal...
...CHARMED LIFE (313 pp.)-Mary McCarthy-Harcourt, Brace...
Died. Donald Clifford Brace, 73, co-founder (1919) and president (1942-48) of Harcourt, Brace & Co., publisher of the early Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg, Katherine Anne Porter, T. S. Eliot; after long illness; in Manhattan...