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...crowds at the great Mass, eleven people fainted. In the procession marched some 1,000, among them an academic section escorting Vice-Chancellor Will Spens of Cambridge University; acolytes, choir-singers, Sunday-school children; Cowley Fathers in black cassocks; black-habited Holy Cross Monks; Franciscans in grey wool habits and sandals; dozens of Bishops all in copes & mitres save two who wore low-church chimera and academic hoods (one of these. Bishop Francis Marion Taitt of Pennsylvania, had welcomed the Congress saying his diocese had all sorts of churchmanship "but most churches get along neighborly"). In the sermon...
...magazine ''an asylum for aggrieved authors," a paper dedicated to ''the reception of new ideas."' No contributions are paid for, but manuscripts have found their way to Editor Buttitta's offices from many a famed U. S. writer, including William Faulkner. Malcolm Cowley, Countee Cullen, Michael Gold, Sinclair Lewis, Lynn Riggs, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens...
...when he tries to protect an old woman from the witch-finders; he and Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday to Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make love to her. But the shadows fly fast: in a brawl between Cleveland and her Puritan brother, Julian is killed; England is split by its worst civil war; Parson Herrick goes back to his Devonshire parish to be ousted...
...entourage was Author Dos Passes, who was off in Mexico. Corliss Lamont, philosophy professor at Columbia University and son of Banker Thomas William Lamont, said he had expected to go along but was too busy. However, Mr. Frank's party mustered Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, literary critic; Editor Malcolm Cowley of the New Republic; drowsey-eyed Mary Heaton Vorse who reports labor troubles better than she writes novels; Playwright Harold Hickerson; Charles Walker, admired for a book called Steel; a 60-year-old Greenwich Village doctor named Elsie Reed Mitchell and a handful of scriveners for the Liberal and Radical Press...
Oxford born, educated at Cowley. hard by the spires of Oxford, Sir William started life as a bicycle rider. He still is proud of his large glass case full of medals. Now, he often hustles off to play golf on the course he owns at Henley-on-Thames. His hired men there may see him playing, but they know they would be fired if they told any bystander that the man in the tacky looking grey flannels is Sir William Morris. Sir William's factory whence issues the Morris Cowley car has put Oxford town on England...