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...fame in many a Washington drawing room-the tongue of Jerome Frank. That restless young Jewish lawyer-who was a brain truster to Mayor Dever's Chicago reform administration; whose early drawing room sallies were in the homes of such Midwest literary liberals as Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, Harriet Munroe; whom Communist Emma Goldman calls "Jerry"; whose shrewdness won him a place in the Manhattan law firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy; whose brilliant articles on judicial psychology led him to friendship with Felix Frankfurter -was like a can of TNT dropped into a Washington drawing room. He turned...
When Poet-Critic Louis Untermeyer went through Dr. Merrill Moore's filing cabinet, he counted approximately 25,000 idiomatic, hybrid or "American" sonnets. Some were bad, some good; some had been printed in Walter Winchell's column, some had appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript, some in Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine oj Verse. To conceive of the tremendous industry that could turn out 25,000 sonnets, says Mr. Untermeyer, "one must think of the author as a pundit, an immured octogenarian, devoting all his hours to the fashioning and perfecting of his flexible models...
...book is dedicated), Sherwood Anderson, Jo Davidson, Edith Sitwell et al. Persevering readers may puzzle long to discover whether these portraits are flattering or otherwise; presumably they are as objective as Author Stein can make them. The reader who wins to p. 105 will discover a portrait of one Harriet which is egregiously clear. Some of it: "She said she did not have any plans for the summer. No one was interested in this thing in whether she had any plans for the summer. That is not the complete history of this thing, some were interested in this thing...
Lewis and Harriet Hayden Scholarship: William E. Harrison, 2G, of Boston...
...Radcliffe Committee will consist of Harriet Adams, Joan Fiss, Jean McMoren Marjorie Simpson, Priscilla Skinner...