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Waitresses are actually quitting their jobs, says John W. Mason, Continental Hotel headwaiter, because poor tipping makes war jobs look bigger and bigger, but even during the pourboire drought, Harvard men are always good tipsters. At least when they come to the Continental...
...Mason finds that other liberal tippers are usually from somewhere East or North. His many years of service in connection with hotels has convinced him that traditionally generous Southerners and Westerners tip least...
...Ruth Benedict, Yale's Edward Sapir, Northwestern's Melville Jean Herskovits, the late Elsie Clews Parsons, University of Cali fornia's Alfred L. Kroeber, Harvard's Alfred Marston Tozzer, University of New Mexico's Leslie Spier, University of Pennsylvania's John Alden Mason...
Died. Albert Kahn, 73, world's No. 1 industrial architect, "father of modern factory design"; in Detroit. Son of an impoverished rabbi, he immigrated from Germany with his family when he was 12, worked for Detroit Architect George D. Mason for 14 years, opened his own office when he was 26. He and the automotive industry's mass production grew together and Kahn's factory designs-"all-under-one-roof," later "all-on-one-floor"-became part & parcel of developing U.S. production; industry's demands for his services made Kahn a mass-producer himself. Ultimately...
During the year: > Many writers, some despairing of interpreting war during a war, found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...