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...Author. California-born (1900), big, blond, blue-eyed, slow-spoken John Ernest Steinbeck has been a farm hand, hod carrier, caretaker, chemist and painter's apprentice, itinerant newspaperman. At Stanford University off & on for six years, he treated it as a sort of public library where he read only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos...
...sold 12,000 copies in the first ten days after Crawford Music Corp. published it. The Bernier-Emmerich tune reached the radio first and as recorded by Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra was No. 1 last week on Victor s best-selling list. The David-Redmond song played by Hod Williams' Orchestra, was 'fourth on the Bluebird record list. Neither publisher protested the other's use of the title. Both tunes are good, and pluggers for both firms last week were making it hard for orchestra leaders to make up their minds. The David-Redmond song...
...passing 14 grottoed Stations of the Cross on the way, claims miraculous relief from his ills. Last Sunday and the Sunday before, pilgrims to Holy Hill beheld, at the gates, men bearing placards: THE HUTTER CONSTRUCTION CO. ON THIS JOB IS UNFAIR TO ORGANIZED LABOR. The pickets—union carpenters, hod carriers and common laborers from Milwaukee—wore their Sunday best, molested no one, explained they were protesting because George Hutter, Fond du Lac contractor who is building a $163,000 seminary for the Carmelites, maintains an open shop, pays low wages...
...Chicago. The Tribune has supported Mayor Kelly, was rewarded when the city changed its clocks to Eastern Standard Time to give the morning Tribune a circulation advantage over the evening News (TIME, March 9 et ante). The Tribune backed Dr. Bundesen and when Kelly said Horner was a hod carrier, the News published a cartoon of the Governor showering bricks on the Mayor...
...Baker's opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment and his support of the resubmission of the prohibition question to the states was made clear in an independent report delivered as a member of the Wickersham commission. No true believer in democracy could hod otherwise that the law to be valid and effective must rest on general consent and if that consent be wanting in large and populous sections the law must be changed...