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BEFORE THE BRAVE-Kenneth Patchen -Random House ($2). SWEAR BY THE NIGHT-Nathalia Crane -Random House ($1.50). Mere mention of poetry makes most men itch. Not until poetry the thing has been sent again & again to the critical laundry would most self-respecting readers wear it next to their skins. Modern poets have always raised a storm of apprehensive, defensive abuse. Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity. But readers of 1936 think they have a better case against their poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered...
...what living artists were producing. As with the Luxembourg, masterpieces, bought cheap, might later be passed on to the historic museums, like the Louvre or the Metropolitan, when time had verified them. Besides Mrs. Rockefeller, founders of the Museum of Modern Art included Miss Bliss, Mrs. W. Murray Crane, A. Conger Goodyear, Editor Frank Crowninshield, Paul J. Sachs of Harvard's Fogg Museum. Gallery space was rented in the Heckscher Building, and on the advice of Professor Sachs, lean, 27-year-old Alfred H. Barr Jr. was hired as Director...
...Thinking that there had been some mistake, Ferdinand announced himself again, this time more distinctly. By messenger Toscanini replied: "Not even for a King can I break my rule of seeing nobody during a concert." To the vast delight of its owner, its maker and its chauffeur, an old Crane Simplex automobile purred smoothly over its 278,000th mile in Manhattan." The good old car is still going strong." bubbled Owner Herbert Livingston Satterlee, silver-bearded lawyer and brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan. Designed and built in 1915 by Henry M. Crane, now technical adviser to the president...
...United States in 1902, and, with the exception of two years when he served as pastor of liberal churches in the Netherlands, has been in this country over since. He has been on the Harvard Faculty since 1928. He is also Professor of Philosophy and Church History at the Crane Theological School, Tufts College, Mass...
Arrangements for the dinner and presentation ceremony have been carried out by Crane Brinton '19, corresponding secretary...