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...Sitwells love fun. Last month, between bombs, they had their fun in court. The Three Sitwells are not an acrobatic act. They are Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, the fractious, fastidious scions of Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, Lord of the Manor of Long Itchington. Osbert is a poet, essayist, novelist (Before the Bombardment, Escape With Me). Sacheverell is an outstanding authority on baroque art and Liszt, author of a distinguished travel book (Roumanian Journey) and much verse. Edith usually dresses like a medieval prioress, writes sharp, hard, colorful poetry that gives the impression of viridian green and Chinaman...
...steelmen fired back. Their stand: the U. S. has plenty of capacity already, and if it hasn't, let civil needs be curtailed, the supply rationed. They cited one of their tribal elders, Cleveland Trust Co.'s economic essayist Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, who has turned up as chief statistician of the War Department, and who last month told the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce that in most cases erection of new plants or additions should be avoided if possible. Last week they found further support in an unexpected quarter: C. I. O.'s Philip Murray. Charging that...
...Essayist Richard Steele to Mary Scurlock (1707): ". . . You must give me either a fan, a mask or a glove you have worn, or I cannot live. . . ." Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think your reason is as distinguished as your imagination? Believe me, Zelide, it is not. Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision...
...love between man & woman. Part I is a memoir of a wine-sodden banquet where a gay seducer, a fashion stylist, a cynic, etc. discourse on follies of woman and love. Theirs is life's esthetic stage. The ethical is explored in Part II by a happily married essayist. "Yes, it is true, no poet will ever be able to say [of the married man] as the poets say of the crafty Ulysses that he saw many cities of men . . . but the question is whether he would not have learned just as many things and just as pleasant...
...Robert Montgomery as chairman. Democratic National Committeewoman Helen Gahagan (songstress wife of Melvyn Douglas) was rounding up Roosevelt votes with the help of sinister Edward G. Robinson, serene Douglas Fairbanks Jr. National defense got its call with the arrival from Washington of prying Leo Rosten (alias Leonard Q. Ross), essayist and humorist, who was recently appointed "special consultant" to the consumers' division of the NDAC. Rosten may soon be officially stationed in Hollywood, where he has spent the last 18 months preparing a treatise on the movie industry. But this time he came to let the studio heads know...