Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finished green sweater into a rabbit jacket before the trip was over, shipped Scamper home to the White House. Such is the biography of Scamper, as related for children by President Roosevelt's only daughter. For the onetime assistant editor (Babies: Just Babies). broadcaster (Best & Co.), and magazine contributor (Liberty and Cosmopolitan), the White House and its extroverted occupants have provided a lively background for her yarn. Easy to identify are Mrs. Ball's children Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis ("Buzzie") who show a mute and dazzled Scamper the White House foyer, the State dining room, the grand...
...Wade's article has an unfortunate resemblance to competent notes for a survey course. . . A freer play of the mind, I think, is to be found in Mr. Creighton Churchill's "The Contemporaries of Sibelius," and very agreeable, too is the same contributor's "Variations on Several Themes." The three stories do not come off; their "ideas" are not sufficiently absorbed in the presented facts; they betray the diffidence or constraining consciousness of which I have spoken. More vigorous and independent are the book reviews; and more revealing, as one would expect, of personal adventure and direct relationship...
Professor Wheeler is the author of several well-known books, "Ants, Their Structure, Development, and Behavior," "Social Life among the Insects," and is a contributor to various zoological publications...
...days of King Charles I England has had its Poet Laureate, given him a pension and two hogsheads of Canary wine (or its monetary equivalent). Last week it became known that the U. S. also has a practicing poet on its payroll. His name is J. Alvin Kugelmass, onetime contributor to Scribner's and the American Mercury and his pay is $19.23 a week, the CWA wage for research workers. Since he is a CWA worker employed not for the pleasure of his sovereign but for the social and economic welfare of the country, Administrator Hopkins detailed...
Whether it is a tribute to your popularity or to mine, I cannot say, but so many of my friends have mentioned the reference in your issue of Dec. 25 on p. 34 to "rascally Julius Tammen" I am impelled to drop you this note. Your contributor intended to refer to "Harry Tammen" but the surname and my own -Tannen, when the former is preceded by "Julius" and the adjective employed is "rascally Julius Tammen" suggests you would desire to make a correction. . . . JULIUS TANNEN...