Word: ners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike U. S. racetracks, the Epsom course is not flat. For a half-mile it runs uphill 100 feet till it reaches Tattenham Corner, slopes downhill to a level stretch, then rises at the finish. Tattenham Cor- ner, named after a manor house which mysteriously disappeared, is a dangerous hairpin turn with a sharp downdrop. At the start of the race, Hyperion's jockey, Tommy Weston, let his stablemate Thrapston take the lead. On Thrapston was Steve Donoghue, winner of six derbies, the oldtimer who rode Papyrus in his match race against Zev in the U. S. ten years...
GREAT CIRCLE-Conrad Aiken-Scrib- ner ($2). Though Author Aiken takes his title from geometry (great circle: a circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best...
...stop Roosevelt will require at least 385 votes, one-third of the convention. Delegations pledged to John Nance Gar ner, James Hamilton Lewis, George White. James A. Reed, William Henry Murray, Albert Cabell Ritchie and Harry Flood Byrd, plus his own vote, totaled 392. Could Al Smith hold the line with such a paper-thin margin? The Roosevelt men scoffed the idea...
...ner of an illustrious predecessor, dangers of which I suspect Mr. Agee is quite aware, yet I for one sincerely and devoutly hope that the parenthetical "may be" of the present title will not remain too permanent a feature therein
...grasp on a single hearing. If in Vienna Composer Schonberg was listening he perhaps resented such homely praise. He started Gnrrelieder when he was 26 (he is 57 now), when he was deeply impressed with Wagner's harmonic combinations, Wagner's use of Leitmotifs. Inspired by Wag ner, he wrote music of stirring beauty. But most of his later, more original works have struck laymen as hideous and obscure. They have had a certain technical interest in that they have grown out of extensive experiments with chromatics and the twelve-tone scale. They illustrate new elaborately propounded principles...