Word: marianism
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...revolutionary program of re-education," aimed to present the Negro (in books, newspapers, movies, texts) to the public in a fair, sober light. "The university of the arts has permitted Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, and Roland Hayes to 'convert' many hostile persons. Jesse Owens . . . Joe Louis . . . George Washington Carver . . . have provided the first jolt to many minds steeped in stereotyped ideas...
...music and literature were strung over the battleground. Sculptor Jo Davidson, engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth Roberts, Louis Bromfield, Channing Pollock and Booth Tarkington plotted a Republican victory, and Dorothy Parker, in a big new pirate's hat, furiously attended Term IV luncheons...
...creation of Marian and Hanna Kister, the Roj (Beehive) Publishers was the biggest fiction publishing house in pre-Nazi Poland. Started after World War I with a cheap edition of Jack London, it grew by virtue of its translations (Proust, Sigrid Undset, Pearl Buck, Galsworthy) to 1 80 volumes a year. In Manhattan last week the Beehive Publishers (transliterated to Roy for the U.S. trade) were again as busy as bees. In between was a story of terror and struggle...
Just Fun. In Kansas City, Mrs. Betty West and Mrs. Marian Braidwood went shopping, reported that they saw successively pour out of a department store: 1) a wave of women, 2) a rat, 3) a woman who wailed ". . . he's a pet, he's just having fun," and crammed the rat back into her pocketbook...
HOME SWEET HOMICIDE- Craig Rice- Simon & Schuster ($2). The three active children of mystery-writing Marian Carstairs were practically in at the death when murder came next door, and in their own inimitable fashion pointed out the solution to a brace of long-suffering detectives. You may forget the murder while you laugh at the kids, but from all angles it's about the best bet of the year...