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Marie Scheikévitch is the daughter of a wealty Russian art collectorwho settled in Paris nea the end of the 19th Century. Time Past begins with a memory of the great catastrophe at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, when thousands of the common people were trampled to death, includes a brief account of Marie Scheikévitch's marriage and divorce, but is memorable for its portraits of celebrities, particularly that of Marcel Proust. Marie Scheikévitch knew Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, was on intimate terms with Jules Lemaître and other are eminant...
Excited by the newborn alliance between classroom teachers and liberal professors, hotheads tried twice to wrest control of NEA's $800,000 permanent fund from NEA's tight-fisted Trustees, vest it in the Assembly of Delegates. "It's a matter of fair play," New York's small, grey-haired, pink-dressed Johanna Lindlof shrilled into a microphone. The Assembly, unimpressed, twice voted to keep its hands out of its own pocket. Mourned Johanna Lindlof: "The classroom teachers are just puppets and the double-crossing superintendents pull the strings...
Cooling off, the "insurgents" returned to the issue of Academic Freedom, framed a careful resolution. They proposed that NEA set up a committee of five-three of them classroom teachers. The committee would investigate dismissals of capable teachers, might even go to court to aid them; would fight such legislation as teachers' oath bills;* would cooperate with the Progressive Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers (A. F. of L. affiliate), the Civil Liberties Union, other "reputable" liberal organizations. On the last day of the convention the insurgents got their resolution on the floor. The Assembly passed it, thus...
...papermen or stifle editorial comment. There will be no such attempt." But Publisher Reid was concerned not only with censorship. Press freedom was also threatened, he told the Yalemen, by "demands to make expenditures which are not economically desired or possible." By that definition, the Missouri convention of the NEA last week found a new challenge to freedom in the proposed NRA communications code. Section 4 of the code forbids rate discrimination in favor of any class of user. Did that threaten the traditional telegraph press rate (one-third of the full day rate, one-sixth of the full night...
First serial rights for North and South America went to United Feature Syndicate Inc., whose Syrian-Sheik General Manager Monte Bourjaily outbid King Features, Bell Syndicate, NANA, NEA. United Features promptly resold The Life of Our Lord to enough U. S. newspapers to avoid, giving first publication to a magazine. Book rights went to Simon & Schuster. The Life of Our Lord will start to appear in about 300 U. S. newspapers on March 5, continue in 13 installments of a little more than 1,000 words each. Had he published The Life of Our Lord in 1849, Charles Dickens would...