Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the argument over the use of the butterfly arm movement scarcely having sunk into obscurity, another controversy concerning the ancient breast stroke has been started by the proposal of Matt Mann, coach of the famous University of Michigan swimming teams, to allow the fishtail log drive in breast-stroke competition...
...John's "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit." That, says he, is "the burden of the manifold texts of Finnegans Wake," and of Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, Gide, Eliot, Mann...
...waste time on half-baked military drill," the headmasters of some 30 famed Eastern schools (among them: St. Paul's, Taft, Horace Mann, Loomis) were told when they met at Pawling School in the Berkshire foothills to ponder the role of "Private Schools in This Emergency." They called in an Army and a Navy man, who flatly affirmed that the best service they can render the nation is to give their boys better training in fundamentals...
...These Bones Live ($3). Van Wyck Brooks (The Opinions of Oliver Allston; $3) was the year's prime example of one who, in the frenzy of his search for saving values, leaped before he looked, with both hands clamped to his eyes. His yoking of "optimistic" Thomas Mann and Whittier as "primary" artists, and his belittling with "self-interest" of such men as Joyce. Eliot and Proust, left serious readers sad and alarmed. Edmund Wilson's The Wound and the Bow ($3) contained important amateur psychiatries of Dickens and Kipling...
...became U.S. correspondent for Paris-soir in 1934. His U.S. stuff (particularly on Hollywood) was syndicated all over Europe. Now a resident of Manhattan, he is married to an editor of Collier's, writes for the Saturday Evening Post. His friends: Raoul de Roussy de Sales, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...