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Nomadic Editors. Every region of the U.S. produced its own magazines. In the Midwest, Midland (1915-33) published such indigenous authors as Paul Engle, Maxwell Anderson and Howard Mumford Jones. In California, a magazine sensibly titled Magazine (1933-35) printed Critics Yvor Winters and R. P. Blackmur. In Santa Fe, Laughing Horse (1921-39) celebrated the Southwest through the writing of such contributors as Upton Sinclair and Sherwood Anderson. Not all of the contributors by any means became well known; many of talent gave up, or turned to Hollywood or alcohol. "Some of the people now forgotten," says Robert Lowell...
...everyone complain about Britain's ailing economy, five pert and miniskirted typists at a factory in Surrey decided to do something about it. To help boost productivity and hold costs down, the girls-Valerie White, 21, Joan Southwell, 20, Christine French, 17, Carol Ann Fry, 16, and Brenda Mumford, 15-volunteered to work 30 minutes extra a day without any additional pay. In most countries such a gesture would have attracted scant attention. In Britain, whose economic difficulties stem as much as anything from an "I'm all right, Jack" attitude among its workers, the girls became heroines...
...Arts S-76, the History of the Cinema, which is attended by more than 200 people. Also drawing more than 200 students is Julian L. Moynihan's English S-163, Forms of Modern Fiction. And at 8 a.m. each morning about 160 students have gotten up to hear Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, lecture on the major American authors...
...Summer School Convocation in Sanders Theatre. Guest Speaker is Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of humanities, Emeritus...
Should be worth the painful awakening every morning to hear a great man lecture. The great man is Professor Emeritus Howard Mumford Jones, and he will take on Major American writers...