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...Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters, the crack newsman whom Knight had hired away from the Cowles brothers in Minneapolis, rolled into Chicago to take over as executive editor. Carroll Binder (rhymes with kinder), who had run the foreign staff, resigned. Into his job stepped Editor Paul Scott Mowrer. Other able craftsmen remained, among them Lloyd Downs Lewis, managing editor, drama critic and biographer; sage, literary Howard Vincent O'Brien, editorial page columnist; Cartoonists Vaughn Shoemaker and Cecil Jensen, creator of "Colonel McCosmic...
...American Romance (MGM) is a $3,000,000,151-minute, Technicolor "epic" of the U.S'. steel industry. Producer-Director King Vidor, one of Hollywood's abler craftsmen (The Big Parade, H.M. Pulham, Esq.) and most earnest innovators (Hallelujah, Our Daily Bread), took fire 18 years ago with the idea of filming a U.S. history in terms of steel. He eventually ignited Louis B. Mayer, too. But the resulting conflagration is a one-alarm blaze, at best...
...order. Many of the estimated 40,000 he has drawn are scattered. Presidents from McKinley to Franklin Roosevelt, lesser statesmen, tycoons have befriended him, complimented him, collected his originals-which he gives away for the asking, never sells. Though never syndicated, his cartoons have been widely reprinted. Fellow craftsmen dedicated their cartoons to him on his 70th birthday. This year his cartoon "But Where Is the Boat Going?"-showing Congress, the President, McNutt, Hershey, Lewis, Green and Murray at sea in a "manpower" lifeboat, won the Pulitzer Prize...
...virtually killed himself trying to reconcile the functions of priest and poet. Hopkins, one of the most influential ancestors of modern poetry, was a poet's poet. Few of his contemporaries saw his work; few would have appreciated it. In an era dominated by such orthodox craftsmen as Tennyson and Wordsworth, Hopkins' innovations were baffling even to his few admirers-"veins of pure gold imbedded in masses of unpracticable quartz," according to Coventry Patmore. Hopkins introduced new rhythms, perceptible to the ear but dizzying to the eye. He coined words ("inscape," "instress," "scapish"); isolated prepositions ("What life half...
...fellow craftsmen who know him consider him the most skilled practitioner of a most difficult kind of book reviewing. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, when he edited the Freeman, said that Lisle Bell had invented a new form, ranked him with highbrow Scottish Critic Edwin Muir. Poet Marianne Moore, who edited the Dial's brief booknotes for the ten years Bell contributed, called one cluster of his reviews the best thing she had seen. The reason why Reviewer Bell has never received recognition for his services to U.S. letters: his 17,000 reviews have been written as a sideline, while...