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...celebrate their first 125 years of publishing Harper & Bros, this week reissued these two neatly bound and boxed volumes by an Englishwoman, whose name, once known to all U.S. literates, has been all but forgotten. Harriet Martineau visited the U.S. only 20 years after the bitter War of 1812, first published in 1838 this account of what she saw. But few books could be more timely. Reason: few Britons have ever seen the U.S. so clearly or reported what they saw with such understanding and fairness. But Harriet Martineau's book is important in another way. It looks, through...
Died. Robert Forrest Wilson, 59, historian, novelist, playwright, biographer; after long illness; six days after he won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Crusader in Crinoline; in Weston, Conn...
Most pained by the sudden bustle was Socialite Harriet Aldrich. Wife of Chase National's Winthrop, she had been appointed by LaGuardia to run the city's whole civilian-defense program. In the interests of unity, earnest Harriet Aldrich thought that all civilian-defense jobs should clear through her. She wrote to Butch. The Mayor sent word to Mr. Morgan to fire Mrs. Davie...
This present production is filled with excellent singers and actors. Todd Duncan as Porgy and Anne Brown as Bess, both from the original production, give outstanding performances. Duncan's rendition of "I've Got Plenty of Nuttin" is especially fine. Harriet Jackson who sings "Summer-time" is a stunning Negress with a beautiful voice and a fine presence. The entire cast played with the ease and rhythmic grace that is so typically Negro and the staging of the show is very fine especially in the love duet and the group scenes...
Dark, elegantly tweedy Pianist Harriet Cohen laid aside an ocelot muff, spread her beautiful hands before the microphone. "During the blitz," she asked, "what would we all have done without the hands of women doctors, nurses, masseuses, A.R.P. workers...