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Gradually Washington came to recognize that the Secretary of Agriculture was something more than a rural curiosity. He was a man of ideas which he liked to ponder long and deeply. At first a number of braintrusters were enrolled among his aides -Rex Tugwell and Jerome Frank among them. But their idealistic social dreaming was not in the same key as Henry Wallace's slow digestion of ideas...
Macy's publicity reads as though he were selling some rare, internationally compounded medicine instead of reprinted classics. Printed all over the world, Limited Editions books include such native volumes as The Psalms of David, being printed in Palestine, Oedipus Rex, being printed in Greece. The Analects of Confucius, printed in Shanghai, reads from back to front, is boxed in carved Chinese redwood. In France, "the owner of a paper mill seeks 100,000 chemises (and diapers, and castoff socks)" in order to make a paper which will "give you delight in its appearance and in its feel...
...Paul van Zeeland (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue). Onetime Belgian Premier debates with Economists William Wilson Cumberland, Ruth Alexander, James Harvey Rogers, Leland Rex Robinson in America's Town Meeting. Subject: "Is an Economic Plan for World Peace Possible...
...Four Horsemen" was produced in 1921 and was directed by Rex Ingram, who entered the field of spectacular motion pictures very shortly after Cecil B. DeMille's "Ten Commandments" appeared. "Scaramouche" and "The Magician" were other films directed by Ingram about this time. The "Four Horsemen" was made after the war novel of the same name published in 1918 by the Spanish author Vincente Blasco Ibanez. Rudolph Valentino, called the greatest cinematic drawing card of all time, plays the starring role...
Other concerts scheduled for early spring include one with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with Mile. Nadia Boulanger directing on March 6; the Glee Club will sing Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," conducted by Stravinsky himself, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on March...