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...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...
Readers of Delta Wedding are likely to get hopelessly tangled in a welter of entering-and-exiting great-aunts, uncles, fathers, cousins, sons, daughters and defunct ancestors. But what they will get clearly, and often admirably, is Author Welty's subtle blending and harmonizing of the moods and characteristics that make a large, well-knit family sound like an orchestra (sometimes a prison orchestra) going full blast. The aim and essence of Delta Wedding is the recording of this mass effect; it has no plot, no direct narrative, and its few dramatic incidents and occasional solos seem...
...credit side of the wartime ledger goes the Wake, started better than a year ago to fill the gap left by the defunct Advocate. Although there has been student representation in its pages, the Wake has been chiefly devoted to special issues and the works of established writers. The Wake plans to continue its occasional appearances even if the Advocate does revive, and an issue on English poetess Edith Sitwell is contemplated for next Fall...
Died. Alfred G. Gardiner, 80, author of trenchant political analyses and humorous homilies (under the pen name: "Alpha of the Plough"), longtime editor of London's now-defunct Daily News; at Princes Risborough, England...
...Defunct since June...