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Robert Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, who believes that a right good education can be packed into less than a five-foot shelf, picked the world's "ten greatest books" for readers of the Chicago Daily News. His list: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics & Politics, Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, St. Augustine's City of God, Aquinas' Treatise on God & Treatise on Man, Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's Works, Pascal's Meditations, Tolstoy's War & Peace. He did not list the Bible...
...crash did not exactly give Braden a social conscience; it awakened one. Dinted but by no means bankrupt, he did some heavy thinking which later led ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings to say: "Braden just couldn't help convincing himself that he was a progressive...
...many a brash biographer (notably: Ernest Renan, George Moore, Emil Ludwig). But the original Gospel story still stands four-square against all comers. Undaunted by the experience of his predecessors,* Columbia's Professor Emeritus John Erskine, who has already tried his hand at fiddling with Greek myths where Homer nodded (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Penelope's Man), last week came forward with a new version of the Gospel story (The Human Life of Jesus; Morrow...
Last week, a retrospective show of "Artists of the Philadelphia Press" opened in Philadelphia's Museum of Art. None of the few examples of war drawings had the static power of Winslow Homer's famed Civil War coverage for Harper's Weekly, nor the hell-for-leather zip of Hearst's Frederic Remington, but Glackens' Night after San Juan, which he drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers...
Trucks lasted four innings, was followed by four Tiger pitchers. Big Hank's second homer of the series evened the score in the eighth inning. Passeau lasted six, Wyse one; Borowy was the fourth Cub hurler, and the winner-after 28 hits and five errors in twelve innings, the longest World Series game on record (3 hrs. 28 min) Score: Chicago 8, Detroit...