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...some time, but there are signs that poets may be tuning up their mounts for more than the usual private canter. Critics who hardly raised their eyes at Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body began to look alive when Archibald MacLeish's Conquistador appeared. Though Poets Brewer, Hill and Stuart will cause little commotion among the critics, to plain readers they will be a further indication that narrative verse is coming back, may be edging toward a real modern epic...
Until last week no U. S. Roman Catholic could join the Knights of Columbus if he subscribed to Socialism or took part in the liquor business as bartender, brewer, distiller, liquor-maker's employe or gin-shopkeeper. At the 52nd annual convention of the K. of C. in Detroit last week the ban on Socialism stood, but the 279 delegates voted to relax the liquor rule. Henceforth a Knight may sell spirits, in sealed containers to be consumed off-premises...
...biggest fish in Hawaii's economic pool are her five big companies of "factors"?American Factors, C. Brewer & Co. ("oldest American corporation west of the Rockies"), Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, Theodore Davies & Co. These firms, controlled by old missionary-merchant families and interlocked by marriage, own or act as agents for most of Hawaii's sugar plantations. At the turn of the century James D. Dole, no islander but a second cousin of Patriarch Sanford, came out from Boston, and started the pineapple business which made him many a million. After suffering huge losses...
...they must first clean the soles of their shoes. Mercenary Strauss undoubtedly is. He lives carefully in his home in Garmisch near Munich. Where royalties are concerned he is a notoriously hard bargainer. At the beginning of his career he planned to be rich. His mother was an important brewer's daughter and he has never known TIME, June 25, 1934 poverty. His domineering wife, an old-time singer, supports him when he says that there is no great glory in going to a pauper's grave like Schubert. Only at skat, his favorite recreation, will he risk...
Atop an unfinished Miami hotel, Shirley Brewer breathed deep of the clear night air, smiled down at the spread-out city, caroled up to the far-off stars, tripped, toppled off the roof. But Death was not ready for him. Fifteen stories up, a narrow ledge broke his fall, saved his life, left him with a leg jammed in a masonry hole. For six days and nights he struggled to tear his leg free, screamed, stared up at the sky through wind, rain, sun, mist. Then, as a workman discovered him, Death was ready for Shirley Brewer...