Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the scheduled program will not be released until later today, this morning's unofficial listing included: Al Capp, cartoon genius; Arthur Valpey, new Varsity football coach; Vern Miller '42, Boston sports writer who will M.O. the evening; one Mile. Charpentier, a mystery at present: the Dunster Dunees; a quartet from Wellesley; the Final Rhythm Kings: an entire U.S.O. entertainment unit; and possibly Victor Forge piano-playing radio...
...young literary people. Mrs. Jano Pierce, Travel Editor for Glamour Magazine, tells her readers, "Ask Yourself which magazine would seem to be most receptive to your idea--then try to fit it as nearly as possible to the pattern of that magazine . . . Of course if you're a genius, you won't have to worry about those rejection slips anyway." The managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement, you can be as dismal as you choose, but the public continues to prefer entertainment to morbidity . . . I often feel that if I come across...
...broader significance of their actions. They unquestioningly accepted their part in the expansion of empire, the spreading of religion, or the development of science and industry." But with the exhaustion of the European tradition, those who had the deepest sense of it were paralyzed by its decay. "Genius felt itself frustrated, and failed to guide. . . . Europe passed into the hands of those who had deliberately renounced the influence of the old tradition and had thus escaped the paralysis of its decay...
Died. Sergei M. Eisenstein, 49, Russia's brilliantly inventive cinema genius (Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Nevsky); of a heart ailment; in Moscow (see FOREIGN NEWS). Hobbled by Communist doctrines of "art," especially in his last years, he made little protest, even though his own great talents were emasculated by the state's demands...
...Charles Ives had written a Holiday Quickstep and been pronounced a genius by the Danbury (Conn.) Evening News. But after Yale, he decided that he couldn't make a living writing the kind of music he wanted to; he went into insurance and became highly successful (he is a retired partner in the Manhattan firm of Ives & Myrick). In his lunch hours and evenings, he composed...