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...Rheingold: Conductor Heinz Tiet-jen's fast time of two hours and 17 minutes set in 1934 has never been beaten. Slowest time for the distance: two hours and 42 minutes in 1951 by Hans Knap-pertsbusch, long regarded, but unclocked, as a relatively "slow" conductor...
Biggest dealer in the art field, Manhattan's cooperative American Artists Group, Inc. already has several best-sellers in its catalogue of 99 artists: an autumn scene with four wild ducks rising from a marsh by Watercolorist J. D. Knap and three variations on last year's best-selling themes: an angel flying over a bleak northern landscape by Rockwell Kent; a railroad snow plow and a country wagon by Chicago Illustrator Dale Nichols; a Rockefeller Center scene by Joseph Golinkin...
...Messrs. Mencken and Nathan exchanged a bilious fish eye, carefully adjusted their elegant opera cloaks, gave a final pat to the knap of their ritzy beaver bats, donned their immaculate white capeskin gloves and stalked up the aisle amid envious glances...
...best sort of short stories observe this unity of character and give the reader a glimpse, a sketch, an episode, rather than any essay toward elaborate portrayal of persons or events. Thus, Mr. Hardy has been less successful in the tales entitled "Fellow Travellers," "Interlopers at the Knap," and in others that might be named, than would have been expected from a writer of his imagination and other rich gifts. Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Walford, and even Mrs. Gaskill have written stories after the manner of the novel-chapter already referred to, and only Mr. Kipling, an Anglo-Indian, and Stevenson...
Outing for November contains a varied store of seasonable reading and artistic illustration. The contents are as follows: "Rugged Labrador," by R. G. Taber; "Duck Shooting on Great South Bay," by J. D. Knap; "Old Plute's Gobbler," by Charles E. Taylor; "Over Ifinger Jock," by Jean Porter Rudd; "A Rondeau Muskallonge," by Ed. W. Sandys; "A Ceylon Tracker," by F. Fitzroy Dixon; "Through an Autumn Gale;" "Banana Land Awhell," by E. M. Aaron; "A Shot at a Shadow," by Paul Pastnor; "Lenz's World Tour Awheel;" "A Bit of Blue Ribbon," by Sara Beaumont Kennedy; "The International Athletic Match...