Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newest of topflight U. S. literary critics is the Times's Chamberlain. Some months ago a lady who admired his column called at his office, found a diffident young man, with an armful of books, who looked about 26. Gasped the lady: "Are you Mr. Chamberlain?" Actually Critic Chamberlain is 31 and ten years out of Yale, where he chairmanned the funny Yale Record. The Times got him after he had spent one year in an advertising agency, kept him as newshawk and associate editor of the Sunday Book Review until 1933. In the autumn of that year Publisher...
Finally we find a "Correspondence" column where an anonymous "Student Correspondent" airs his woes. Unfortunately grammar gets the better of the writer, and in the second paragraph, after eleven lines of wandering, he is forced to conclude what has not yet developed into a sentence by a despairing...
...CRIMSON. And, finally, indulging in what is perhaps a pardonable personality, it seems to me that if the CRIMSON can demonstrate the economic harm to and plead for social justice for the Chinese in the editorial "The Orient's Silver" it is quite inconsistent to inveigh, in the next column, against the Liberal Club's petition to Congress...
...ROUTE WHERE ROADS ARE ONLY A NAME IT WOULD PROBABLY BE FAMILIAR WITH THE 20-INCH WHEEL HIGH ROAD CLEARANCE PLYMOUTH. YOU MAY BE SURE SHARSMITHS PRAYERS AND REQUIREMENTS WILL HAVE BEEN FULLY ANSWERED BY ALERT CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH DEALER BY THE TIME THIS WIRE REACHES YOUR COLUMN...
When Poet-Critic Louis Untermeyer went through Dr. Merrill Moore's filing cabinet, he counted approximately 25,000 idiomatic, hybrid or "American" sonnets. Some were bad, some good; some had been printed in Walter Winchell's column, some had appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript, some in Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine oj Verse. To conceive of the tremendous industry that could turn out 25,000 sonnets, says Mr. Untermeyer, "one must think of the author as a pundit, an immured octogenarian, devoting all his hours to the fashioning and perfecting of his flexible models...