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...other U.S. family ever used its leisure to make so much intellectual and literary hay. In The James Family, Harvard Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen, Novelist James's ablest critic, has carefully pieced together "the biography . . . of a family of minds." "Autobiography" would be more accurate; most of the book consists of essays and letters (some never before printed) of Henry James Sr., sons William and Henry and little-known daughter Alice...
...Taft-Hartley secondary or unfair labor practices provisions, or on the basis of some new law not yet on the statues; but proceedings will, in all probability, never get that far. The fifth column activity of those unwilling to let foreign and non-union recording musicians make hay in fields that used to be theirs ought to do the trick...
...opening speeches were about such innocuous concerns as German unity and anti-Fascist solidarity. The Russian angel of the performance, a small, feral, red-eyed lieutenant colonel named Alexander Dymshitz, sat and beamed. But as the sessions wore on, the Reds could not resist the temptation to make political hay. Up stood one Vsevolod Vishnevsky, a Soviet author and war reporter in excellent standing with the Kremlin. He told how, during the siege of Leningrad, he had personally saved German anti-Fascist and classical literature from German bombs. That was all right, but he went...
...regents decided that Dobie must go. The problem was how to get rid of him, for he was the biggest name on the Texas campus. Finally, a way was found. For years, Dobie had taken leave without pay during the fall term to write, and to avoid the hay-fever season. This year, when he applied for leave as usual, Painter refused it, said he must stay on the job. No, said Dobie: hay fever "devastated" him. President Painter thereupon issued a statement: "By this action, Dobie's connection with the university has terminated...
...worst of the trouble revolves around Dorothy Lamour, who is marooned on a farm but can think of only one good use for hay. She points this good use out to Ladd, who spurns her advances. So she marries Preston in order to keep in touch with her quarry. Finally Ladd and Preston slug it out in a bar and find that they mean much more to each other than the disconcerted Miss Lamour does...