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...opponents. But he still goes on pounding the stuffing out of bogeymen that once seemed giants. Treatise on Right & Wrong, a companion piece to Treatise on the Gods, is Iconoclast Mencken's first book in four years and the first fruits of his retirement (last autumn) from the editorship of The American Mercury (TIME, Oct. 16). With a sturdy contempt for philosophers, metaphysicians and theologians ("They are specialists in penetrating the impenetrable, or they are nothing"), Mencken tramps into their jealously guarded sanctuaries and lays about him manfully with his 19th Century rationalist flail. Like its predecessor, Treatise...
...Nellie (Warner). Last year newspaper pictures were about Broadway columnists. This winter they are about city room celebrities demoted to writing advice to the lovelorn. Part comedy, part melodrama, Hi, Nellie shows how Bradshaw (Paul Muni) retrieves his city editorship by digging up the inside story on a vanished judge whose corpse he finds in a graveyard where it was placed by gangsters...
...anniversary by the publication of a new History of Harvard University. In 1926, Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History, was appointed Historian for the three hundredth Anniversary of Harvard College. A volume on the "Development of Harvard University from 1869 to 1929" has already been published under the editorship of Mr. Morison. His "History of Harvard College" in the seventeenth century will come out in 1934, and for the eighteenth century...
...first volume on the last fifty years of Harvard history was written almost entirely by members of the faculty of the University under the editorship of Mr. Morison...
Henry Louis Mencken, having been divorced from the finances of the American Mercury last-year, now announces his resignation from its editorship. No one will blame him for his unwillingness to be the last seaman on board a vessel which is patently enreefed, but many will be sorry that the Mercury has come to be such a vessel. Its function, basting the prosperous and needling the Rotarian, is outlived in time when Rotarians are impecunious and craven and the imbecilities of their heyday clotured by depression. The protuberances which the Mercury swatted have largely sunk back into the primeval slime...