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...pioneer among secular newspapers was the Boston Transcript when it instituted a religious department - "The Churchman Afield"-33 years ago. The "Churchman" was Herbert Hervey Fletcher, who had gone into journalism in 1879, became manager of the New England Associated Press in 1887, associate managing editor of the Transcript in 1897. New England came to know "Churchman" Fletcher well. Apocryphal perhaps but typical is the story of the provincial lady who wrote in to say her 25-year-old son was spending a week in Boston, would the Churchman be good enough to keep...
ANTHONY ADVERSE - Hervey Allen - Farrar & Rinehart...
Foreign Affairs (by Paul Hervey Fox & George Tilton; Kamsler & Fuller, producers). A great many people admire the slick urbanity of Osgood Perkins; many more are titillated by the romantic comedy of Henry Hull; others like to watch Dorothy Gish purse her mouth. Foreign Affairs, with all three of these favorites in it, should therefore afford capital fun to playgoers in considerable numbers...
Sirs: My father, the late Daniel E. Hervey, worked on the editorial staff of several New York papers for years and one of his pet hobbies was writing a short column of "If you see it in the Sun it isn't always so." "If you see it in the Sun" was Dana's pet caption. I have inherited his hobby and recently took you to task when you called citizens of Caracas, Venezuela, something other than Caracanians. One of your editorial staff wiggled out of that one but this time I have you right. In TIME...
...giving his recollections of Gray and Woodberry, Mr. Hervey said that the four years in which he worked with the latter on "The Life of Poe", were the happiest he had lived, and he paid tribute of those contemporaries of Amy Lowell. He also lauded the critical work of J. L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature...