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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gives me considerable pleasure to see that the Crimson is supporting the return of Bernard De Voto to the Harvard Faculty, now that he has left his post as editor of The Saturday Review of Literature...
Contrasting the Crime Club's late Edgar Wallace with the Saturday Evening Post's Stephen Vincent Benet, "Dangerous To Know" and "Love, Honor, and Behave" constitute an average double bill. Mr. Wallace's effort is by far the better, and to his good, albeit depressing, story is added fine performances by Akim Tamiroff and Anna May Wong--the music-loving gangster and his "hostess," respectively. But "Love, Honor, and Behave" fails completely to be either an amusing musicale or a sound social drama, succeeding only in convincing a spineless Yale graduate (Wayne Morris) that he should spank his wife (Priscilla...
Died. James Howell Post, 78, who rose from a $3-per-week office boy to be chairman of the board of a $26,000,000 industry. National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey; after a short illness; in Brooklyn...
...Editor Canby stepped down to the post of contributing editor. To his desk went aggressive, irascible, 39-year-old Bernard De Voto, who had been a lecturer at Harvard, editor of The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, Red Book, Collier's. Born in Ogden, Utah, the son of a Notre Dame mathematics teacher and a Mormon girl, Bernard De Voto entered the University of Utah at 17, helped organize a socialist society, left Utah in disgust when three faculty members were dismissed for unorthodox opinions. He went to Harvard, enlisted, was a lieutenant...
...bird in any aviary. But he seemed still queerer against his own hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil War. A superb orator of the bull-roaring Bryan school, he plumped so hard for railroad land grants that his legislative activities were notorious even in those wide-open times. Then he reversed himself and began attacking the concentration of wealth, led the radical Farmers' Alliance...