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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again I thank you for your comprehensive review of the situation; my TIME-respecting family at home as well as the other 499,999 of your subscribers will be glad to know, I am sure, that we are not being coerced into reading the "Primer" by a lot of long-bearded "Reds" armed with machine guns and treatises on free love...
Your jaunty review of the Legislative Committee's investigation of radicalism at the University of Chicago (TIME, June 24) is as misleading as the idea that anything but a whitewash was conducted, except for Senator Baker. At the farcical hearings every anti-Communist witness with evidence on the subject was shamelessly browbeaten, insulted and repressed...
...burly, whimsical, pipe-sucking Christopher Morley popped O. O. McIntyre onto the front pages with the cry of "plagiarism." The cry was raised over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years he consistently...
...know it's a tough job. But when he gets into the bookshops then I feel a certain sense of trade honor involved. ... I work hard over my stuff, and if people are going to read it I'd prefer them to get it in the Saturday Review . . . under my own name than in the Hearst papers under...
...music of his Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. The song was published by John Church of Cincinnati in 1861. Union soldiers, at the outbreak of the Civil War, picked it up as a marching song, added the "Jeff Davis" verse, carried it to Washington. There in 1862 after a great review across the Potomac Julia Ward Howe heard the Federal troopers singing it. Early the next morning, with John Brown's Body running through her mind, she wrote the words of The Battle Hymn of the Republic to Bishop's tune...