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...Enchanted Voyage. But with works of the stature of Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee, James's Andrew Jackson, Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, Robert & Helen Lynd's Middle town in Transition, Sandburg's The People, Yes, Mencken's The American Language, the White House Library received a few books last week that seemed likely to outlive its present inhabitants...
Manifesto- Last year Baltimore's sage, Henry L. Mencken, stated the opinion of a large portion of the English-speaking world when he called the abdication the "greatest story since the Resurrection." Last week Baltimore's most noteworthy response to the Windsor housing tour came not from Sage Mencken but from an American Federation of Labor leader named Joseph P. McCurdy in the form of a resolution unanimously adopted by a meeting of the Baltimore Federation. Excerpts...
...Colleges for graduating in 1935 a student who had failed to pass his final examinations. Writing this year in the Baltimore Sun on the history of the University of Maryland, of which St. John's was a part from 1907 to 1920, tart Tax payer Henry Louis Mencken thought the most impressive fact about St. John's was that it "receives $67,000 a year from the State, and every student on its roll costs the taxpayer...
...descendants, and of their business and journalistic heirs. Last week that story was published by four able writers, all employes of the Sun, in as comprehensive a biography as any U. S. newspaper ever received: The Sunpapers of Baltimore, by Gerald W. Johnson, Frank R. Kent, H. L. Mencken and Hamilton Owens...
Probably the most eminent present members of the Sunpapers' staff are its four biographers. Oldest of these in point of service is Political Pundit Kent, who has a roving assignment to write as he pleases for the Sun. Editorialist Mencken, who writes a weekly article for the Evening Sun, has been continuously employed on the two papers for over 30 years, is now a director of the Sun company. Present management of the Sunpapers, headed by President Paul Patterson, has sought to make the Sun and the Evening Sun separate journalistic entities, although national advertising may be inserted...