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...supporting item on the bill, Mary Roberts Rinehart's "The State Versus Elinor Norton," seemed designed to convey a message; it is useless to join the army, since it is almost impossible to get killed. Incidental impressions conveyed by this drama of polite neuroses were that Hollywood has not yet run out of battle scenes, and that no matter how plentiful the circumstantial evidence, a good woman has yet to be convicted. As the prosecuted Elinor Norton, Claire Trevor remains resolutely good before the advances of a clean American friend, an orchid-ridden Brazilian lover, and (apparently) a shell-shocked...
...Hervey Allen (Anthony Adverse), Pearl Buck (The Good Earth), Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday), Frederic G. Melcher (The Publishers' Weekly), William Warder Norton (National Association of Book Publishers), and E. S. McCawley (American Booksellers Association) last week went to the White House bearing gifts: 200 books published in the past four years, an addition to the 500 volumes with which the publishers started a White House library four years ago (TIME, April 7, 1930). Mrs. Roosevelt entertained the delegation at luncheon. Later all went to the President's office where the books were laid out on a table...
...administration really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their lives to the adverb in Tacitus or to the importation of bananas into Brittany during the sixteenth century, and none that it wishes to get rid of teachers who might follow in the footsteps of James, Norton, Babbitt, and their peers...
Founders' Day Speaker at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. was Author William Rose Benét. His subject: Poetess Elinor Wylie, his late fragile wife, who composed whole poems without pencil or paper and died in 1928 from the effects of falling downstairs. Declared Mr. Benét: "No photograph can recapture the distinction of her actual appearance, the strange, unforgettable beauty, the remote fastidiousness, the shy, almost scared aloofness followed on the instant by some impulsive gesture of affection or the kindling of her expressive face to some enthusiasm. She made the most diverse impressions upon people met casually...
...FREEDOM VERSUS ORGANIZATION?Bertrand Russell?Norton...