Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president, bald, vigorous Harold G. Moulton. Actually the concept was as much the creation of its Institute of Economics director, tall, distinguished-looking Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse (rhymes with "course") and the latest book is published over his name and that of Horace B. Drury. Brother of Novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart (Oil for the Lamps of China), Economist Nourse went to Brookings with Dr. Moulton in 1922 after teaching in a number of colleges. His latest work gives a readable history of general prices, lists numerous reasons why price policies have erred, also lists numerous examples of progress in corporate...
Eight Etudes for Symphony Orchestra (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) respectively dedicated by Composer Robert Russell Bennett to Composer-Conductor Walter Damrosch, Novelist-Essayist Aldous Huxley, Actor-Playwright Noel Coward, Carl Hubbell, all Dictators, Human Faith, Painter Eugene Speicher, the Ladies. They are given their first public performance by Howard Barlow's orchestra...
Meanwhile, he was developing such an ear for southern speech that when a hitchhiker said, "I shore do thank ye," Author Daniels thought he must be a novelist in disguise. It sounded more natural when a Cherokee Indian playing a slot machine exclaimed, "Hell, it's a gyp," still more natural when a home-loving Tennessean, standing on a hilltop in his undershirt, told him proudly, "There are not many places like this one. ... I never could figure out what I went for, ex cept maybe I was young and wanted to see the world...
Scoop, his latest, is Caldwell in character, Wodehouse in plot. Mrs. Algernon Stitch, to help her novelist friend. John Boot, sang his praises, asked powerful, shirt-stuffed Publisher Lord Copper why he did not send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents...
Latest addition to the growing evidence of bootleg Victorian unconventionally is Margaret Armstrong's story of Fanny Kemble, to whom Novelist Henry James, her close friend, paid this tribute: "She was one of the rarest of women. . . . She reanimated the old drawing-rooms, relighted the old lamps, retuned the old pianos. . . . An extraordinary mixture of incongruous things, of England and France in her blood, of America and England in her relationships, of the footlights and the glaciers in her activities, of conformity and contumacy in her character and tragedy and comedy in her talk...