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Once upon a time Mary Colum was Mary Maguire, Irish, red-haired and 18. "I got on the Dublin train," she says, "in my new blue ankle-length dress, my dead mother's watch fastened to a long chain and stuck in my belt. Attached to the chain was a silver Child of Mary medal and a ... silver cross, and nobody, not even a native of central Africa, could have failed to recognize in me the typical product of a convent school...
LIFE AND THE DREAM (454 pp.)-Mary Colum-Doubleday...
Military censors got a new kind of kick in their chair-worn pinks. The kicker was the author of "Marmaduke's Colum (The Journal of a London Sub-Editor's Youthful Son)" which appears weekly in London's World's Press News. Fortnight ago Marmaduke tried to imagine what would happen if Alfred, Lord Tennyson had had to get his Charge of the Light Brigade cleared through the Censorship Division of the British Ministry of Information...
...Among his students: Margaret Mead (And Keep Your Powder Dry, TIME, Nov. 30), Colum bia's Ruth Benedict, Yale's Edward Sapir, Northwestern's Melville Jean Herskovits, the late Elsie Clews Parsons, University of Cali fornia's Alfred L. Kroeber, Harvard's Alfred Marston Tozzer, University of New Mexico's Leslie Spier, University of Pennsylvania's John Alden Mason...
Tchaikovsky: Francesco da Rimin (London Philharmonic Orchestra, con ducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Colum bia; 6 sides; $3.50). The storms of Hell swirling about Dante's damned lovers Paolo and Francesca, were never driver more furiously...