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POWER AND GLORY, The Life of Boies Penrose - Walter Davenport - Putnam ($3)- Many a rough, brutal life is epitaphed into marmoreal propriety; but this biography of hardboiled, cynical Boies Penrose fits its subject. From the typical disillusioned newspaperman's attitude, with no kinship to the polished Lytton Strachey school, Power and Glory sets forth briefly, competently, in blunt, sensational journalese, the true story of a bold...
...they: ". . . Liveliest imagination and most delicate style of her time. . . . Everything excites her, beggars and duchesses, snowflakes and dolphins. . . ." Passionately intelligent, with a long, drooping, intellectual face, large, heavy-lidded, straining eyes, Virginia Woolf looks as if she were peering out from a borderland where great wits remember their kinship to madness. Other books: The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Monday or Tuesday, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Common Reader, A Room...
DEAR SIR COLON PERMIT ME TO BEAT JOHN AND RANDOLPH TO THE DRAW BY DISCLAIMING KINSHIP WITH THAT DISTINGUISHED BROTHERHOOD [TIME, Aug. 31] PERIOD NOT THAT I CARE COMMA BUT JUST IN CASE THEY SHOULD PERIOD MY BROTHER IS A TROMBONE PLAYER COMMA UNHEARD OF BUT BY NO MEANS UNHEARD STOP THANKS PERIOD...
...Jeff Davis face modeled by Lukeman lurked the same inexplicable resemblance to Abraham Lincoln which has bred gossip of kinship between the two. Such report is based largely on the fact that Lincoln and Davis were born eight months apart, within 100 miles of each other in Kentucky. Dr. William Eleazar Barton, foremost Lincoln scholar, has flayed such gossip as baseless and untrue...
...third and intangible reason is his kinship with the Pacific. He was born in Honolulu 51 years ago, as was his father 80 years ago. Castle Sr. rendered the Hawaiian monarchy notable service, was its attorney-general, its minister to Washington. He took a leading part in the movement for U. S. annexation. Lawyer, banker, public utilities man, Castle Sr. is today one of Hawaii's most venerable citizens (TIME, July 8). The brightest spot in the Tokyo assignment is the visit the son will pay the father between ships in Honolulu...