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...that you remove your carcasses without the door." John Llewellyn Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, said that at a convention years ago. He was maledicting radicals, William Z. Foster in particular. Typically of the U. S. labor movement, great-faced Mr. Lewis can talk better against radicals than he can for or against anything else. Since Bolshevism first entered the limited vocabulary of the average citizens (circa 1919), there has never been a convention of organized labor in which it was not denounced. Better that a U. S. labor leader should have his face covered with mud than...
Engaged. Nicholas Llewellyn Davies, youngest of the four adopted children of famed author-play-wright Sir James Matthew Barrie; to the Hon. Mary Beatrice James, daughter of the noted sportsman Walter John James, third Baron Northbourne. As everyone knows, Mr. Barrie met the four Davies children years ago in Kensington Gardens, and adopted them after the death of their parents. Their mother, Sylvia (Du Maurier) Davies, was the beautiful daughter of famed artist George Du Maurier and a sister of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. She and her children figure in many of Barrie's works. George, the eldest, suggested...
Skin for Skin?Llewellyn Powys ?Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). The three literary brothers Powys all gnaw without cease at the mouldering bones of old mortality. Llewelyn ("Lulu"), whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children...
There is a sense of prophecy and of deep moral values in Bojer's books. They are all books which would like to bring to humanity something of the nobility of sea and mountain moods. Llewellyn Jones says of them...
...know how to teach-the ability to think constructively. His training as a writer began with reporting days in Davenport, Iowa. Later, in Chicago, he became associate, then editor of the Literary Page of the Evening Post, a position now ably filled by the wise (as well as clever) Llewellyn Jones, Since then he has been converted in one way or another with The Masses and The Liberator, but he likes to feel that his active editorial days are past. He has also written essays, poetry, plays, criticism. Two general books, one of them the excellent Were Ton, Ever...