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...professors who issued the statement, "I am a life-long democrat, but shall vote for Bacon," include: Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology; Zechariah Chafee, Jr., professor of Law; David L. Edsall, dean of the Medical School; William H. P. Hatch '98, Edward Swett Rousmaniere, professor of Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament; Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History; Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus; Ralph Barton Perry, professor of Philosophy; Austin W. Scott, Story Professor of Law; and Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance...
...mystery story, about the convict Magwitch and his life-long feud with the blackguard who stole his wife, is blurred by the fact that Magwitch never seems quite sure whether he is villain or hero. In addition to this, the characters have names like Pocket, Jaggers, Gargery and Pumblechook. In spite of all these eccentricities. Great Expectations is superb cinema entertainment. It should go a long way toward enlarging even further the prestige of Charles Dickens who has lately become the most fashionable author in Hollywood...
...richest men. In Baltimore, Upton Sinclair was born 56 years ago last month. His father was a ne'er-do-well traveling salesman, much addicted to the bottle. The spectacle of his ''good and gentle-souled father" drinking himself to death made Sinclair a life-long Prohibitionist. Nor does he use tea, coffee, tobacco. He came by his radicalism early. Writes Author Sinclair in his autobiographical American Outpost: "Floyd Dell . . . asked me to explain the appearance of a social rebel in a conventional Southern family. I thought the problem over, and reported my psychology...
...bald little man who trails them from town to town, settles many a backstage dispute, writes occasional reviews for British papers (New Statesman, New English Weekly, Manchester Guardian) and turns up persistently at rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several inches too long. Author Haskell identifies himself as a life-long balletomaniac who studied dancing to understand its difficulties. He quarreled with Diaghilev over his last ballets and Diaghilev never forgave him. He describes Diaghilev's weaknesses: his sexual abnormalities, his greed for sweets, his crazy superstitions, his countless inconsistencies. But in the Machiavellian persecutor which Madame Nijinsky portrays...
...callers importune him he takes a bath or goes to bed. When he talks about his work his deep-set blue eyes burn with an icy fire. He walks prodigious distances through the city streets. His most valued friends are the New York Public Library's somnolent pigeons. A life-long bachelor, Dr. Tesla is tall, spare, erect, parchment-skinned, beak-nosed. The mustache he once wore is gone...