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...beginnings some twenty-two years ago, the Graduate School of Business Administration has today reached a position on a level with the other professional schools. Few are the progressive business men now who still maintain that the only training for business is acquired at a tender age with a broom on an office, or a factory floor. Business training approaching the status of legal training, is more and more becoming recognized as a great asset toward eventual success...
...Author. Robert M. Coates, 33, is a Yale graduate (1919), onetime left-wing litterateur (contributor to Broom, transition, Gargoyle). He is married to Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, lives in Manhattan, but is building a house, "almost single-handed," near Brewster, N. Y. Just over six feet tall, burly, shy, he has gentle blue eyes, a mop of red hair, his clothes flap on him. He throws an ice pick at a bull's-eye painted on a barn door with persistence and accuracy. He has written one other book: The Eater of Darkness. He works on the editorial staff...
Wichita, Kan. is famed for stockyards, broom factories, oil refineries, Quakers. Lately it has been calling itself "aviation capital of the U. S." having forty-seven aeronautical enterprises in or near it. In the past fortnight Wichita has become indebted for further prominence to Max and Louis Levand, co-publishers (with their brother John as circulation manager) of the Wichita Beacon, formerly owned by Senator Henry Justin Allen...
Author Matthew Josephson, critic, poet, biographer, is one of the younger-left-wing literary figures. Onetime associate editor of Broom (onetime esoteric occasional published abroad), he is now U. S. correspondent for transition (TIME, Feb. 17). Hard of hearing, with large, gazelle-like eyes, he wears a mustache, parts his hair in the middle. Last February Critic Josephson planned to take his wife and two small sons to Europe; the night be fore the Bremen sailed the Josephson's Manhattan apartment caught fire. Josephson saved his family, tried to save a favorite picture by Artist Charles Sheeler, was badly...
...When in 1919 and 1920 Prohibition was a 'new broom, it swept clean.' Since then we went backward for a time . . . but at no time to where we started. . . . We seem now to be passing through Prohibition at Its Worst. . . . The liquor problem, like the race problem, is an insoluble problem and will remain so for at least a generation. . . . All the evils of Prohibition claimed by the Wets exist. . . . But what is their program for coping with these evils? Virtually they have none, because they have so many and none of them practicable...