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...however. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, young Jones, after two years at the State Normal School in La Crosse, Wisconsin, attended Wisconsin University where he majored in English, graduating in 1914 with Harvard colleague Sumner Slichter. It was the age of the "Wisconsin Idea;" it was also a time when Mid-Western writers were rebelling against the literary dictation of New York; when the Wisconsin players were presenting plays by Zona Gale. William Leonard, Laura Sherry--and H. M. Jones, the latter already the author of "A Little Book of Local Verse." When Jones received his M.A. at Chicago University...
...magazine long enough, you begin to catch on to what is going on and enjoy the fun. As the situation stands now, we have the critics all trying to work up a football-rally attitude toward orchestras, conductors, and even composers. "Time" magazine, for instance, loves to juggle the "Mid-Western league" against the "Eastern league," and play one conductor off against another as if American music were a species of indoor athletics. "Life" recently announced, in its paternal way, that it was becoming "unpatriotic" not to like the Shostakovitch Seventh. The result of all this hurrah-boys publicity about...
Occasionally the school's analysis of a problem is used by a company to its great advantage. A mid-western department store, ignorant-of the niceties of financial budgeting, was written up in a B School case. Professor Bates, who was a student at the time, wrote the best report on the case. His report besides winning a school prize was sent to the store and was adopted by it as the basis of future calculations. Another firm revised its entire factory scheduling procedure after seeing their system set forth in a case...
Obvious slips mar an otherwise enjoyable film. It takes place in the most mid-western New England town you've ever seen. If you can picture Concord looking as though cowboys would come hooting through the Common, yu might believe the town is east of the Hudson. And the hero, Ronnie Colman, who graduated from Harvard Law School at an amazingly undraftable age, is plagued with the epithet "Sonny." Acceptance of the bogus New England village apparently implies belief in Colman as "Sonny." Cary Grant tries and tires his old, set role, and Jean Arthur still has a hair...
White-topped Elmer Davis, the newsman with the reassuringly deadpan, mid-western voice, had held his job a month, but so little had been heard from him that correspondents had begun to cry, "Where's Elmer?" Last week they knew where he was: on the spot-put there prematurely by the issue of Army censorship over the Nazi saboteurs' trial...