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...last week President Roosevelt held a long and earnest conference with his leader in the Senate, hardworking, humorless Joseph Taylor Robinson from Arkansas. Long sessions of Congress always make trouble for an Administration, and the President wants Congress adjourned somewhere between May 1 and May 15. Together President and Senator surveyed the calendar of Congress as if it were a chessboard, saw it littered with pieces of legislation, some to be moved to victory, others to be left dead when the board is arbitrarily swept clean by adjournment. Like two chessmasters they ticked off the bills that the Administration feels...
...ALTAR IN THE FIELDS-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($2.50). Last week nobody was much excited to learn that Ludwig Lewisohn had written another novel. A humorless and determined individualist, Author Lewisohn has gradually accustomed most U. S. readers to treat his output with restrained respect. A solemn harping on the string of self-expression, An Altar in the Fields tells nothing new about Lewisohn, life or love...
Summing up for the defense, Sir Patrick Hastings stressed that printed apologies had already been made to outraged Broker Blennerhassett. argued that the ad writer had chosen "Blennerhassett" without malice, "simply as a name which suggests a stolid, humorless, didactic person. . . . Moreover in the advertisement the briefcase of the Mr. Blennerhassett in the picture was far too small for the initials of the plaintiff...
...question of a successor was, unlike the same question at Princeton, not without likely answers. Dr. Lowell has long been suspected of having a candidate in mind. In any discussions by the Overseers the following would certainly be mentioned: Kenneth Ballard ("Cotton-Top") Murdock, 37, the scholarly, efficient, humorless Harvardman who was elected Dean of Arts & Sciences last year (TIME, Oct. 12, 1931); Edward Allen Whitney, Associate Professor & Tutor in History and Literature; Francis Parkman of the famed Harvard family; Missouri-born Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department; Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 37, a distinguished...
...Yorker (for the senseless and humorless scribblings by self-adjudged Artist Thurber...