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...Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold...
...MAUROIS has chosen for his subjects under the title "Prophets and Poets" those contemporary English writers who "have played an important part in the spiritual moulding of one or two generations of human beings." These essays on the life and thought of Kipling, Wells, Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad, Strachey, Lawrence, Huxley, and Katherine Mansfield were first delivered as lectures to French audiences, and most of them suffer from the exigencies of their original purpose. Again and again an indigestibly large amount of biographical data is crammed into a study, followed by a series of extracts from the work of the writer...
...mythmaker of the century (this is orthodox enough), and second because he is the only true exponent of "an heroic conception of life." One who is convinced that heroic themes in modern literature can be found only in Kipling will probably not grasp the significance of the work of Conrad. The essay on Conrad, in the reviewer's opinion, is inadequate and misleading. Like the other essays it has a neatly phrased central thesis pigeon-holing its subject. Conrad, though Polish, "expressed a certain Anglo-Saxon ideal better, perhaps, than any other man of letters." He taught "a stoic philosophy...
...popular lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree...
...Business Page was an inconspicuous feature of the U. S. Press until the middle 1920's, when public interest in the stockmarket made editors clamor for Wall Street news. United Press did not even furnish stockmarket quotations when Elmer Conrad Walzer, after a few years of teaching and a turn at reporting, became UP's financial editor in 1926. As editors expanded their business section, UP geared itself to fill more space, hired specialists, furnished columnists, commentators and quotations...