Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides the football announcements there will be several feature talks by outside speakers. Dave Eagan, sports writer and boxing critic of the Boston Globe will talk on boxing. J. L. Knox, coach of the Second University team is to explain the new rule changes as they will go into effect next season. Arthur Sampson, head football coach at Tufts and Stanley Woodward, sports writer for the Boston Herald are also to speak. The meeting is the second of its kind which has been held in preparation for the coming conditioning season...
...Dudley Fitts, who can, and, on occasion, does write verse which at least scans, has contributed some doggerel which smells of the Rotunde and of which this particularly gifted critic cannot decipher so much as a line. One of its verses begins with a comma. It doesn't really seem to matter...
...Flonzaleys," a critic once wrote, "must certainly eat of the same loaf, drink of the same cup." This critic, too, guessed wrong. Away from their music they have led friendly but separate lives. They traveled together, by necessity, but each one sat by himself, usually reading. In Manhattan, where they were most often, they stayed at separate hotels. For a month in the summer they took vacations apart. Two other months a year they spent in making programs and practicing in a chalet high in the Swiss Alps near the Villa Flonzaley...
Three-fold was Editor Kendall s attack on testimonials. First he got an article from Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed literary critic and exponent of advertising.* Under the title: "Lucky Strikes Save Florida's Crew," Mr. Calkins deplored the fact that Hero George Fried had hardly docked before he was endorsing Lucky Strikes via radio and newspapers. It is Mr. Calkins' agency that has created the famed Fire Demon in the Hartford Fire Insurance advertisements; to the testimonial demon Mr. Calkins is equally antagonistic...
JOHN FARRAR, Author, Critic...