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...Sister Eileen (by Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov, produced by Max Gordon). Several years ago The New Yorker ran some wry, funny sketches by Ruth McKenney describing the screwy plight of herself and her sister Eileen on first moving into Greenwich Village. Last week Eileen McKenney and her husband, Novelist Nathaniel West (Miss Lonely hearts, The Day of the Locust}, were killed in an auto accident while returning to California from a Mexican hunting trip. And last week sister Ruth's sketches were the basis of a new Broadway comedy hit, directed by George S. Kaufman...
...America is now wholly given over to a d-d mob of scribbling women," growled staid Nathaniel Hawthorne some years before the Civil War. Many of the novels which they produced, says Bowdoin Professor Herbert Ross Brown, "deserve to appear on any list of the world's worst fiction." Yet he feels that these novels of "handkerchiefly" feeling deserve his 400-page study as clues to the early literary aspirations of the U. S., which have something of the charm of Currier & Ives prints...
...director. A Harvardman (1933), he took art as a snap course. Since then Jim Plaut has had two great ambitions: to get permanent quarters for the Institute; to put on the first big Rouault show in the U. S. The quarters he got from Mrs. Joel Goldthwait, mother of Nathaniel Saltonstall (first cousin of Governor-re-elect Leverett Saltonstall), who is the Institute's president and Boston's most eligible bachelor. She handed over her five-story house with no strings. Director Plaut would have liked to raise $25,000 to remodel it, but the war held...
Dunster succeeded Nathaniel Eaton, the first school Master, a "rare scholar" but one who fled after having corrected one of his assistants, for it is recorded that Eaton "beat him for nearly two hours with a walnut tree plant big enough to have killed a horse and a yard in length." For this disciplinary action the public demanded his discharge and a 30 pound fine...
Clayton J. Clawson ocC is President of the organization. Faculty advisors are:Edward H. Chamberlin, professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics, John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes professor of political Economy and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, Edward S. Mason, professor of Economics, Abbott P. Usher, professor of Economics. Also Melvin T. Copeland, professor of Marketing and Olyde of O. Ruggles, professor of Public Utility Management of the Business School; and Russell A. Nixon and John D. William, instructors in Economics...