Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amiable, soft-spoken Chairman Woltz, who was onetime editor of the University of Virginia's famed Law Review, and commanded a Negro antiaircraft battery in the Pacific, is also campaigning to reform Richmond's antiquated city government. Said he last week: "We are determined not to be just another Sunday-school class. We definitely want some action and are going to keep doing something...
...brilliant student of languages, he was familiar with a dozen European tongues, and in 1942 he served as an interpreter at a White House conference between President Roosevelt and Molotov. In recent years he has been editor and manager of the "Slavonic and East European Review...
...good, grey, elephantine New York Sunday Times celebrated a partial anniversary: the Book Review section was 50 years...
...middle-aged and fat with advertising, the Book Review paid tribute to the best-sellers which made it prosperous. In its listing of the two most popular books published in each of the last 50 years, oldsters might recognize some titles with twinges of nostalgia, and youngsters would still find a few on school reading lists. Movie versions had kept, others half alive. Sample titles (from the first four decades...
...rustling. It is particularly proud of its young (42) president, who was only 33 when he got the job; of its flying field and its curricular course in practical aeronautics, soon to be resumed after a wartime lapse; of its seven-year-old, widely respected literary quarterly, The Kenyon Review, edited by Poet-Critic John Crowe Ransom, a member of the college faculty...