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Publishers of Gentle Reader are Music Critic Samuel Chotzinoff, editor of the magazine, and Managing Editor Richard Manson. Literary editor is Author John Erskine, with whom are associated Lloyd Morris as reviewer of fiction, Byron Steel of biography. Staff writers advertised: Herbert Bayard Swope, politics; Percy Hammond, theatre; Richard Watts Jr., cinema; William Cotton, art; Mary Watkins, dancing...
...beauty. . . . Life is complicated. It is not simple enough." Echoing critics might apply the same criticism to Maurois' Lyautey: might add that Maurois has told much of Lyautey's achievements, little of the simple facts of his life. Other (translated) books: Ariel: The Life of Shelley, Byron, The Life of Disraeli, Aspects of Biography, Voyage to the Island of the Articoles, The Weigher of Souls (TIME...
...Married. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey Jr.. son of the president of the Fred Harvey company, famed restaurateurs; and Kathleen Whitcomb, Chicago socialite; in Chicago...
...Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...
...content with a mere abracadabresque chanting of holy names, Durant follows up his list of required reading with many a hortatory ejaculation. "Absorb every word of Taine's chapter on Byron. . . . Do not miss the odes of Keats. . . . Go then, to William James. . . ." Nothing if not an enthusiast, he exclaims of John Cowper Powys: "Here is the finest American prose since Santayana...