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...dynamic maxim attributed to Stephen Girard reads: "My deeds must be my life; when I am dead my actions must speak for me." We hope Christian manhood leaving Girard College is eloquent action; a mere educational plant done up in Chester County marble is rather static-entirely speechless...
Only a pale pink is Novelist James Timothy Farrell, who, like his hero "Studs" Lonigan (Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day), began in Chicago a generation ago as the frilled darling of an Irish family, grew up to be wonderfully rough & tough. Progressively ruddier are Novelist Josephine Herbst (The Executioner Waits); Playwright Albert Bein (Let Freedom Ring); Critic Granville Hicks ( The Great Tradition), who on his Fellowship will carry past 1890 his revolutionary interpretation of U. S. literature. Ultra Red is satiric Poet Kenneth Fearing, who bitterly wrote of a poor man run down...
...they kept the family together for all of the 17 months, refused invitations lest the children should be influenced by hearing too much praise. Next week they will move to their ranch in California, remain in retirement for two years while Yehudi has time to rest, study, develop into manhood. If Mother Menuhin has her way, Hephzibah will never have an intensive public career...
...neat thesis which demands more than ordinary biographical skill, but readers of Young Mr. Disraeli last week agreed that she had it. Her biography of Disraeli read like a novel, and a good one. Not a full-length life, it ended with her hero's young manhood. Like a good novelist, Author Thane knew when and where to stop...
Only since 1925 has Japan had what passes in the Empire for "universal manhood suffrage." Last week a few dainty Japanese feminists toddled about the larger cities exhorting men to "Vote, Please!" and wearing scarfs reading not "Votes for Women" but "Pure Election...