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...Louis-born, restless daughter of a brilliant surgeon and one of St. Louis' leading clubwomen, sent to Bryn Mawr ("I wasn't allowed to major in English on account of I wasn't good enough and wrote rowdily. . . ."), Martha's perambulations are such that only a good detective could have kept track of her. She has bummed her way afoot over most of Europe, making many an acquaintance on the way, once wrote a novel which she lost in Lake Maggiore, married and divorced famed French Journalist Count Bertrand de Jouvenel, accompanied a French youth delegation...
Selling Podunk. President Judson of Community has 20 traveling salesmen. They earn their pay mostly in towns of 15,000 to 500,000. In Podunk, for instance, which has never heard any music better than the high-school band, a salesman calls on the local bigwiggery and the clubwomen, cajoles them into a week's fund-raising campaign to put Podunk on the musical map. When Podunk's committee has the money in the bank, the salesman checks over Columbia's list of appropriately-priced artists. For these, Podunkians pay list prices. But Judson's artists...
...Omaha, the Matthews Bookstore, biggest in the city, actively organizes book clubs, has been so successful that Omaha now boasts more of them than any city of its size in the U. S. Most influential is the Dundee. Complaining that there are not enough books with uplifting messages, Dundee clubwomen go in for exhaustive analyses of novels, one member charting the plot, a new member describing the setting, and a veteran speaker discussing the philosophy. Clearest proof of Omaha literary societies' influence is in the history of Lloyd Douglas' famed inspirational novel, Magnificent Obsession. Passed up by Eastern...
Main criticisms of U. S. literary clubwomen about U. S. publishing are that books cost too much, are too long, that publishers try to dictate their reading habits by high-pressure publicity. In San Antonio, for example, club members snubbed Laura Krey's highly publicized romance, . . . and Tell of Time, preferred Jonathan Daniels' sober criticism, A Southerner Discovers the South. In Omaha, clubwomen feel that publishers pay too much attention to Manhattan opinion, not enough to the more spiritual interests of Midwesterners. But the major complaint of women's literary clubs throughout the U. S. is that...
When on any issue Alf Landon joins Al Smith. William Green joins John Lewis, Georgia Baptists and Tennessee Episcopalians join Manhattan rabbis, cafeteria workers join Chambers of Commerce, sportsmen join clubwomen. President Conant of Harvard joins Presidents Dykstra of Wisconsin and Wilbur of Stanford, something momentous has happened in U. S. public life. Last week such a thing had happened. All these and other signs indicated that the U. S. people were unitedly aroused...