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A slight, silver-haired spinster boarded a plane for Africa last week on a strange errand. Esther Cummings was off to visit Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she...
Died. Francis Welch ("Frank") Crowninshield, 75, longtime editor of the late, famed Vanity Fair, pioneer U.S. collector of modern French art, elegant bon vivant of the old school; after an operation; in Manhattan. Frank Crowninshield made Vanity Fair a gourmet's selection of new, high-flavored literary and artistic...
The Wake sprang up in the fall of 1944 taking the place of the then deoment Advocate, featuring student contributions in its early issues but soon expanding to include such prominent writers as E.E. Cummings '15, Convad Aiken '11, Harry Levin '33, and Kenneth Patchen.
In the last publication before its downfall, the editors came out with an entire issue devoted to the work of Cummings, including his plays and poems and several stories on his life. At that time, the Wake had an international outlet to Europe and Latin America.
The moviemakers have replaced this love story of tortured velleity with one of more baroque appeal-one scarcely, however, so recognizably Venetian, American, or, to name the spade, anything. Briefly, the movie niece (Susan Hayward) is young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has...