Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of the work of assembling the material for the issue was done by Harry Brown '41, himself a published poet...
...Fesler's hoopmen will be out after their second victory of the season on the Indoor Athletic Building floor tonight at 8:45 o'clock as they play host to the undefeated Brown Bruins, who have trampled over their alumni, Clark, and Connecticut State by top-heavy scores thus far this year...
...strongly under the singular spell of the region. The seemingly unreal colors and the patterns of curving rock strata have been used by him as the basis for powerful and intricate designs. The Death Valley and Otowi landscapes are done in a swirling, rhythmic manner with different tones of brown which emphasize the bare aridness of the scene. The view of Pajaritc seems to indicate the influence of Cezanne upon Wells in the development of solid forms and is much in the manner of the early Cubists. Here again the hurried, sketchy drawing filled in with drab browns is characteristic...
Last week in Millbrook (Little, Brown. $2.50) Author Lutes continued her homely reminiscences. In this volume her hardbitten, hard-eating, yo-year-old father has moved to a small 30-acre farm on the edge of a little village. It tells less about cooking, more about people, their gossip, scandals, fighting, country dances. Its highlights are Nell Peters' illegitimate baby, Cousin William's scandalizing city wife, the axe murder of Aunt Het. Like The Country Kitchen, its charm is that it dramatizes the horse-&-buggy atmosphere of an old almanac...
More nostalgic than any memoir, however, is The Old Farmer's Almanac which last week made its 147th annual appearance. Published for the last two years by Little, Brown (is), it now lacks the crotchety personal stamp of Founder Robert Thomas, no longer carries temperance articles, nor illustrates them by pictures of a sinister mother mixing gin with milk to pacify the baby...