Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catholic liberal editors admitted that there was not much they could do about it if church leaders should give MacManus the go-ahead. MacManus' self-styled "No 1 Man" is Frank Jacob Mullen, who lately resigned as top ad salesman for the Satevepost to promote MacManus' proposed Catholic newspaper merger. Said he: "It doesn't make a hell of a lot of difference what editors think...
...national air defense program such as that envisioned by President Roosevelt must include provision for rapid and thorough training of huge numbers of pilots as well as tremendous expansion of production capacity, according to a joint interview granted yesterday by Jacob P. Den Hartog, associate professor of Applied Mechanics, and William Bollay, instructor in Applied Mechanics...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' collected short stories have good claim to being a better book than her big bestseller, The Yearling. When the Whippoorwill contains eleven stories, including a novelette (Jacob's Ladder) which first put Florida's "scrub" back country on the map and Author Rawlings among the ranks of the South's best regional writers...
...Sculptor Jacob Epstein was born in Manhattan, but he has made his reputation in London, where he moved a generation ago. There he is known as the bad boy of the English art world. Justly famed for gaunt, incisive portrait heads, he has kept the public roaring at his huge, paleolithic figures, whose potent brutality has shocked the prissy, angered the academic and given him the biggest headlines of any contemporary artist. Last year Sculptor Epstein produced his latest shocker, a three-ton, seven-foot, simian statue of Adam in pinkish alabaster, whose bull-bold virility made pulpits seethe, strong...
TITANIC - Robert Prechtl - Dutton ($2.50). The story of S. S. Titanic, is one long frenzy of symbolic possibilities. No Melville but murderously in earnest, Prechtl makes a sort of Tamburlaine of John Jacob Astor, constructs a magnificent tear-jerker about the aged Isidore Straus. To these creatures of fact he adds tons of Sunday-Supplement material (melodrama, pseudoscience, a malign diamond), a few moments of near-grandeur...