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...milk. They talked to each other with some sort of grunts-umfa umfa-glug glug." Thus did a Perth Amboy, N. J. public school teacher read last week to her sixth grade pupils. One little girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages from the book, A Child's History of the World. Said he: ". . . There is plenty of other stuff to teach." (He is author of After Its Kind, considered authoritative by antievolutionists...
...Livingston Lowes, for the collection into one or two volumes of articles on Chaucer, for the preparation of a book on Chaucer, for the completion of Gutch Memorandum Book of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and for the continued investigation of manuscript in Harvard College Library at first thought to be Byron's; Mr. D. M. Little, Jr., for obtaining photostats of original letters and manuscripts by or relating to David Garrick...
...first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows the artist himself suddenly and horribly committed suicide. To the general public he is already becoming a Character, classed with Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Modigliani, Van Gogh, and Lord Byron, among the rips, rakes, and naughty fellows of the arts...
Throughout these kinetic happenings (the play uses three revolving stages, 27 scenes) Editor Byron joins Playwright Louis Weitzenkorn in excoriating his profession, justifying his actions on the grounds that "idealism won't put a patch on your pants. I'm one newspaperman who's going to have a comfortable old age." But when he learns of the tragedy his paper has wrought, he tells his publisher what he thinks of him, stalks out of the office with a bitter laugh at himself...
...show chatter as: "What am a suicide pact?" And a bogus air enters during the scenes in which disillusioned reporters tell each other their troubles. The play has undeniable vitality, however, and provides a good deal of technical information on the inner workings of a gum-chewer sheetlet. Arthur Byron is masterful, makes completely credible the part of a tough, dogged newsman...