Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curator MacLeish sees that the Fellows get reserved press-box seats at Harvard Stadium games, observes how their eight wives and eleven children bear up under Boston's climate. He also arranges and presides at weekly lively dinners where Fellows hobnob with journalistic guests and Harvard bigwigs, get shaken out of their grooves. Widow Nieman, who had a taste for gin, would have enjoyed the Martinis at these affairs. The Fellows have come to refer to her affectionately as "Aunt Agnes," and Aunt Agnes' Fellows have acquired a free-swinging conversational style under brilliant Archie MacLeish. After...
...more tangible results from Widow Nieman's bequest to "elevate the standards of journalism . . ." can hardly be expected until the present Fellows get back to their typewriters. Meanwhile, they are having a fine time. Bachelor Fellow Herb Lyons of the Mobile Press Register lives in a domitory; all the rest have apartments or houses. Their wives complain that they are rarely home for dinner. Ebullient Ed Lahey, who already knows most of the Cambridge cops by name and won enough from his fellow Fellows in a poker game to buy a ton of coal, has begun to educate Boston...
Braced as they were for Composer McDonald's shocker, the audience found the neoprimitive chorus and agitated orchestra less terrible than they had anticipated. Aside from a screech or two, Composer McDonald had concocted his score with ingredients that recalled the work of several old masters. Press pundits, long critical of McDonald's lack of originality, loudly assured their readers that the title of his work, Lament for the Stolen, did not refer to McDonald's familiar-sounding themes and harmonies...
Best (though not the best written) biography of Macaulay since George Otto Trevelyan's (Macaulay's nephew), published in 1876, is Lord Macaulay (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), by Richmond Croom Beatty, a 40-year-old professor at Vanderbilt University. Outstanding is its fairness, its reconstruction of Macaulay's times. Macaulay's spectacular progress, says Biographer Beatty, came mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress...
Last week the President again declared that only an Einstein could yet figure anything definite from his Rearmament plans but at a White House press conference he gave out a mimeographed announcement by the new Civil Aeronautics Authority: "President Roosevelt today approved a program presented [by CAA] for the annual training of approximately 20,000 pilots in the colleges and universities of the U. S., and authorized the allocation of $100,000 in National Youth Administration funds for the initial phase...