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...Manhattan last fortnight, soft-voiced, grey-haired Elizabeth Seifert, winner of the $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine novel contest, attended a big luncheon in her honor at which Hendrik Van Loon, Pearl Buck and other literary notables spoke, hurried back to her home town of Moberly, Mo. to start work on another novel. The wife of a refrigeration engineer (her real name is Mrs. John Gasparotti), Prize-winner Seifert won over 1,200 contestants with Young Doctor Galahad, a story of a small-town physician, planned to use her winnings to educate her four children. For herself she bought...
...that honor promptly came last week from Westport, Conn., an arty village lying on the sluggish River Saugatuck where it empties into Long Island sound. There Author Hendrik van Loon's Connecticut Society of Friends of Music announced plans for an initial summer season of six concerts scheduled for this summer. While this six-performance schedule would still leave Westport trailing in competition with such established U. S. summer festivals as the Berkshire, Hollywood Bowl, St. Louis Municipal Opera, and Manhattan Lewisohn Stadium, such Westporters as van Loon, Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett hope for glamorous future expansion...
...books that for convenience are called bestsellers. Each week the position of these ephemeral favorites are carefully checked. According to mysterious fluctuations in the public taste, books rise and fall in popularity: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People drops below Van Loon's The Arts one week, rises above it the next, then falls below Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living...
...Arts-the story of painting, sculpture, architecture and music-from the days of the caveman until the present time-was written by (1 J. B. Neumann, 2 Pablo Picasso, 3 Hendrik Willem van Loon, 4 Emil Ludwig, 5 Thomas Mann...
...Lossiemouth are both my heart and my hearth," said he. "A Lossie loon [boy] was I born, and a Lossie loon shall...