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Busy with his Forty Years of Psychic Research at the time he heard this, Author Garland discovered too late that Gregory Parent "had passed into the 'fourth dimension.' " But for pan royalties in the present book a medium attempted to con-tact the Parents in the spirit world...
...professional economist as well as a poet, and testimony to his rank in the former are three articles of his which have been printed in the "Rassegna Monetaria", the Italian economic journal. His explanation of his personal mixture of poet and economist is that "an opic is a poem con- taining history, and if a man thinks he can understand history without economics he is a bloody idiot...
...actual fighting in Europe last week. Meanwhile the U. S. people continued the process of making up their collective mind about War (how to provide against its coming) and Peace (how to preserve it). The process consisted, as it must in a democracy, of sound-offs hither & yon, pro & con. Most notable...
...keeps up his tradition of copying only the best in swing with "I'll Always Be in Love With You," a reissue of the old Fletcher Henderson arrangement. But since Benny didn't put his name on it as author, Fletcher Henderson used to be his arranger, and it con be ruled an excellent copy of an excellent arrangement... Bluebird turns out a very fine release this week with the famous "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Lux Lewis, another boogie record by Pinetop Smith, and "Rosetta" with an all-star band. Fine jazz plus excellent recording make this tips...Catch...
They are impressive. From the fully assembled data of Cezanne's life, Collaborators Barnes and de Mazia have, for one thing, interpreted his personality with more enlightenment and justice than any pro or con writers have been able to do. His everlasting self-distrust, compensatory self-assertion, slowness and difficulty with his medium they freely concede. But Cezanne's knowledge of painting and the profound calculation and power of his real triumphs they fully establish. Not only the effect of these paintings, which other critics have expressed not quite so well: "Fundamentally they are static, not inert...