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...force himself to write, then get unfriendly advice on what he had written. Verses in hand, he "went a considerable journey partly to get the advice of a poet not of my school who would, as he did some years ago, say what he thought. I asked him to dine, tried to get his attention." But all the other poet would talk about was politics ("He said apropos of nothing 'Arthur Balfour was a scoundrel' "). He urged Yeats to read Major Douglas (on Social Credit), went away shaking his head because Yeats replied that he was re-reading...
...possible to imagine Anthony Abbott, S.S. Van Dine, Carolyn Wells et al enjoying acute cases of indigestion when they see what Mr. Irwin has done with their favorite little tricks. The astute reporter, amateur detective par excellence, successfully makes a dummy out of Sergeant Kellius of the Rome police. The villain becomes the hero, the hero becomes the villain, the love affair is consummated prettily, in fact the ardent detective story reader, if he choose to take this seriously, can find no faults with the orthodoxy of the technique. But the reader who thumbs the pages from a previously experienced...
Typical of the situation is Leverett House, where, although the tutors' table perseveres, undergraduates are permitted to dine at it when accompanied by a tutor, and tutors may sit at the regular tables with students. Although a certain amount of contact is made in this way, the average number of tutors sitting with students each meal is about two or three. At Eliot House, where the tutors' table is under heaviest and steadiest fire, and rightfully too, the event of a tutor dining with a student is in the nature of a minor phenomenon. Similar conditions in the other Houses...
...wainscoted dining halls of six other Harvard Houses, students grumble daily about the same bad food. That Lowell grumbled loudest was, perhaps, because it is the most articulate, most distinctive, most prematurely hoary of Harvard's new Houses. No sooner had Lowell House been built five years ago than its spirited little Master, Professor Julian Lowell Coolidge, who pedals dexterously through Cambridge traffic on a bicycle, set out to give his House a Personality. Today Lowellians wear House neckties, bowl upon the quadrangle green, clang the tuneless Russian bells in the House tower, wear dinner jackets when they dine...
...SMILING CORPSE-Anonymous- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The murder of a critic at a big literary tea gives Chesterton, Van Dine, Rohmer, Hammett and others a chance to show off. First-rate satirical farce even for those not up on the mannerisms of current bestsellers...