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Transatlantic radio failed Lady Rhondda last week, and her voice was unintelligible to the Conference. An advance copy of her speech was read by Irita Van Doren, editor of the Herald Tribune's Books Supplement. Her text was the inscription at the base of the statue of Nurse Cavell who, before she was taken out to be shot as a spy, said: "Patriotism is not enough." Her theme: "The one thing that matters more than all the rest is international relations...
...high as ever in Helen Reid's compact breast. Proud is she that no other metropolitan newspaper employs as many female executives. There are Mrs. Helen W. Leavitt, assistant advertising manager; Elsa Lang, promotion director; Esther Kimmel in charge of the Home Economics Department; Books Editor Irita Van Doren; Mary Day Winn, assistant fiction editor; Book Critic Isabel Paterson. And most important, presiding on the ninth floor, Marie Mattingly Meloney...
...literary business, like any other, has its entrepreneurs, and they are not all publishers. Editor Carl Van Doren, like Editor Louis Untermeyer, has made his literary name by purveying other men's wares. Friends call him a constructive critic; carpers, a popularizing salesman of U. S. letters. Not the first nor the best U. S. prose anthology, Modern American Prose is one of the biggest (939 pp.). Few readers will agree that all Editor Van Doren's examples deserve to be included in such a collection, or that every example is truthful, beautiful, alive, but nearly every-one will find...
MODERN AMERICAN PROSE?Edited by Carl Van Doren ? Harcourt, Brace...
Editor Van Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back...