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...Soho Café. Yet he was never a stranger to London. The Soho restaurant called the Eiffel Tower knew his booming voice and august figure as well as it knew his colorful companions: Max Beerbohm, Tallulah Bankhead, Wyndham Lewis, the young Prince of Wales. In Ireland he spent his time with W. B. Yeats; in Paris he sought out James Joyce; in London he came to know Shaw, Wilde and Aldous Huxley. To women he was irresistible. It was said the female sitters would sometimes strip off their clothes without John's either asking or wanting them to. When...
...Texas G.O.P. has vigorous and youthful new leadership. U.S. Senator Tower is 36. State Chairman Tad Smith is 33, County Chairman Max Allen of San Antonio is 29, and County Chairman James Bertron of Houston is 31. Among those who signed pledge cards were some solid political pros, such as Breckenridge Oilman Jack Cox, 40, who picked up 619,000 votes (40% of the total) in challenging Governor Price Daniel in the Democratic gubernatorial primary last year. Cox appears set for an even more serious bid for Governor next year-as a Republican...
German Economist Max Weber broached the theory in 1905 with The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Calvinism and the Protestant sects, he maintained, lacking the absolution of sins provided by the Roman Catholic Church, depend upon outward and visible signs of salvation: diligence, sobriety and God's reward-success. Thrift, he argued, was also a peculiarly Protestant virtue, and the combination of these qualities naturally produced capital. Weber quoted Methodism's founder, John Wesley: "Religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches.'' British Economist Richard H. Tawney further...
...these distinguished early contributors, the Review has added many more. Henry Adams, Winston Churchill, Max Beerbohm, Leon Trotsky. Robert Frost, Andre Gide, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Mann, Rebecca West, Aldous Huxley and Dr. James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard, have all appeared in the Review. The Review's range of interest is wide, running all the way from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter ("Law and Order") to the late Humorist Robert Benchley ("The Typical New Yorker"). The Review was one of the first U.S. publications outside of little poetry magazines to publish the singular verses of French Poet...
...Died. Max Weber, 80, Russian-born dean of U.S. modern art, who studied in the avant-garde art world of Paris at the turn of the century, was influenced by Cezanne and Matisse, returned to become the first U.S. modernist, working in every form from painting to sculpture; after a long illness; in Great Neck, N.Y. Weber believed that "science proves to the mind; art reveals the heart," in 1929 had the first one-man show in New York's Museum of Modern...