Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regarding your devoting the entire Cinema section to a review of Treasure of Sierra Madre, I have come to the conclusion that your reviewer must have fallen asleep in the movie-house and dreamed about all he wrote...
...unusual for an undergraduate even to see his bluebook once the examination is over. Although it seems apparent that if examinations make any pretense at being on educational process they should he returned to the students for review, few courses have gone to the trouble of making their examination readily available after being corrected...
Gathering the next day on the Capitol steps, they split to buttonhole legislators and other public officials and review their stand on the pending training proposals...
Died. Robert Burns Mantle, 74, retired dean of Manhattan drama critics (his prestigious yearly anthology of Best Plays covers every Broadway season from 1899 to 1947); of cancer; in Forest Hills, L.I. A newspaper typesetter in 1896, Burns Mantle was once unable to decipher a critic's longhand review, wrote one of his own, went on writing reviews until he retired in 1943. A kindly observer who occasionally risked being dull in his efforts to be fair, he advised his Daily News successor that Broadway was his oyster: "Season it with a dash of salt...
...spoken Tom Lamont worked his way through Harvard, rose to a Morgan partnership at 41. Once a reporter (New York Tribune, 1893-94), he continued to be fascinated by printer's ink, lost heavily in four years as owner of the New York Evening Post, backed the Saturday Review of Literature for 14 years, wrote one book of his own (My Boyhood in a Parsonage). Following World War I he shuttled about the world trying to put the financial pieces together (Dawes and Young plans), knew and advised the world's powerful (Clemenceau, Lloyd George). He made...