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Readers who note the comments on the English spirit, English genius, character, history which run through Maurois' books may feel that he says things that most Englishmen would like to hear, but which their own writers seldom point out. With a great gift for simplification, Maurois makes complex individuals...
Professor Copeland, in accordance with his usual custom, has not announced in advance what selections he will read. In the past he has read from Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Dunne, Thackeray, and many others, as well as from the Bible.
"Captains Courageous" by Kipling emerges in a new light. It is no longer a healthy adventure story. The South End Parent-Teachers Association of Boston has denounced it as breeding racial hatred because a negro cook is referred to as a "nigger", and the Association has requested Patrick C. Campbell...
This is truly a matter to view with alarm, and without banter we suggest that some of our more ethnocentric loyalists and propagandists climb to the top of Grizzly Peak and bay back at Boston high society in the hill-billy jargon that is all they seem able to understand...
Second Recessional? Cousins are Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Poet Rudyard Kipling, at whose home the statesman first met his invaluable, bouncing Wife Lucy. Last week sturdy Squire Baldwin, whose hobby is breeding prize pigs, was the only prominent member of His Majesty's Government who did not take...