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...strong toasts and heavy talks with Moscow's leading editors, who for the first time were all gathered at a dinner for foreign visitors. The U.S. visitors listened politely to an angry diatribe by Russia's cantankerous Reporter Ilya Ehrenburg (whom the editors describe drily as an "essayist" for the Government), and sat through "almost identical speeches" by the editors of Pravda and Izvestia, who insisted that only the U.S.S.R. had a truly free press. They concluded that Russian editors get their ideas of the U.S. press from such books as Upton Sinclair's Brass Check...
...reasons why troops found it hard to be tough were well put by the late C. E. Montague, British essayist, who wrote of the Allied occupation after World War I: "How can you hate the small boy who stands at the farm door visibly torn between dread of the invader and deep delight in all soldiers as soldiers? ... It is hopelessly bad for your Byronic hates if you sit through whole winter evenings in the abhorred foe's kitchen and the abhorred foe grants you the uncovenanted mercy of hot coffee and discusses without rancor the relative daily yields...
Died. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, 65, essayist and short-story writer, wife of Princeton's English Department Chairman Professor Gordon Hall Gerould; after long illness; in Princeton, NJ. A constant critic of jazz-age manners, she took time out in 1926 to cover the Dempsey-Tunney fight for Harper's Magazine...
Wrens and Marmalade. Young Wendell was raised among Boston's Brahmins by a father whose eccentricities plagued his son more than a storm of briefs. Dr. Holmes was noted professionally for his researches into puerperal fever. But he was famous as an indefatigable essayist and light versifier. His Autocrat of the Breakfast Table had impressed even the Germans - who read it under the some what imperious title, Der Tisch-Despot...
...zeal for religion faltered; young Hazlitt decided to become a painter. Art proved tumultuous. When his canvases displeased him - as they often did - Hazlitt slashed them to pieces in fits of rage. Nice girls also displeased Hazlitt. When Charles Lamb introduced Hazlitt to a group of them, the essayist snarled that "they drove him mad." Well established already, says Authoress Maclean, was the "deep division in his nature ... a tendency to react from extreme refinement of feeling to extreme grossness of desire." Wrote Coleridge : "Hazlitt, to the feelings of anger and hatred, phosphorus - it is but to open the cork...