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Died. Wilfred Meynell, 95, poet, essayist, discoverer of drug-addict Poet Francis Thompson; in Pulborough, England. With his poet-wife, the late Alice Meynell, he founded and for twelve years edited the literary review Merry England. In 1888, he received some verses written on blue sugar-bag paper by the starving Thompson, printed the contributions, rescued and cared for the poet for 19 years...
Died. René Benjamin, 63, Royalist French novelist and essayist, who charmed his countrymen during World War I with Gaspard and Grandgoujon, outraged them during the occupation with Le Printemps Tragique, an attack on the Third Republic; following an operation; in Tours, France...
Died. Emil Ludwig, 67, German-born biographer, playwright and political essayist, whose popular, sentimentalized big-name biographies (Goethe, Napoleon, Roosevelt, Stalin) set a fashion; of a heart ailment; in Ascona, Switzerland. The son of a rich Jewish ophthalmologist, Ludwig began his prolific writing career as a verse dramatist, switched to war correspondence and then to highly colored biography. A voluntary exile from Germany since 1907 (his books were later burned by the Nazis), he became a Swiss citizen in 1932, worked as a $1-a-year bond salesman for the U.S. Treasury during World...
...ripple when a bright young man took over as editor. He was forthright David Astor, 36, whose grandfather bought the paper from Lord Northcliffe one year before young David was born. He took the tiller from Editor Ivor Brown, who returned to his favorite pursuits of drama critic and essayist. In Brown's six-year term, the Observer had gone nonpartisan, and become a better all-round paper (except to Tories) than Lord Kemsley's rival Sunday Times...
...Wonder. Europe's pride is the tender and assertive pride of age. The fashion now among such British intellectuals as Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Essayist Cyril Connolly is to say that only the dying old have life, and that the life and vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more...