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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer. . . . Havelock Ellis' "My Life" is an undistinguished chronicle of a distinguish life. . . Henry F. Pringle makes "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" a far more appealing and interesting book than one's impressions of the Taft administration would make one suspect. . . . Boris Souvarine's "Stalin" is less a biography than an attack on the man who, in the author's opinion, has sold out the ideals of the Russian Revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...forsworn Soviet Russia once and for all. Nevertheless, a fine book by one of the most intelligent reporters of our day. . . . Nora waln's "Reaching for the Stars" is a superior account of one woman's reactions to the Nazi regime. Not passionate in its hatred, but one the less deeply moving. . . David Lloyd George's "Memoirs of the Peace Conference' reconstruct, from an unmistakable viewpoint, the peace conference which made no peace at all. . . Pierre van Paassen's "Days of our Years" remains one of the most enthralling, and certainly the best written, of the "personal histories" which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...doubelton is the latest of the "Blondie" series, with more of the faults and less of the virtues of its predecessors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Funds are available in sufficient amount to grant 20 scholarships of $1000 each, but it is expected that the average award will be slightly less than this figure. The amount granted to each successful applicant will depend on his financial need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS SCHOOL TO ESTABLISH NEW NATIONAL AWARDS | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

Thirteen dual meets, one less than last year, are scheduled for the Varsity swimming team this winter. The only newcomer among the opponents of the Crimson tankmen is M. I. T., which has been absent from the Harvard pool for more than five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. I. T. IS INCLUDED ON NEW MERMEN SCHEDULE | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

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