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"Awful Discipline." Wood's vigorous way of life is the result of a rigorous youth. Born in Kansas City, Mo. in 1879, he was the first of five children of Robert Whitney Wood, an ex-Union Army captain who settled down to run a coal and ice business. When...
93. Before he died in Decemoer, his amazing sensitivity for words, pouncing eye for the phony, and rigorous taste had made a whopping success of his magazine:
Man: Upright or Fallen? If U.S. literature consisted only of minor figures, Van Wyck Brooks would be its perfect historian. He is fine at netting the minnows: expatriate Logan Pearsall Smith, who thought to win immortality through "a perfect phrase"; Gertrude Stein, who "looked and walked like a corpulent monk...
In 26 years he made The New Yorker a synonym for urbanity, but he himself remained a bawling, rough-cut outlander from Aspen, Colo. A catty old friend, Alexander Woollcott, once described him as looking like "a dishonest Abe Lincoln." Rumpled, wild-haired and irascible, Ross talked in an ear...
By most anybody's retrieving standards, the performance was exceptional. But last week at the National Retriever Field Trials it was barely above average. The cream of the nation's retrievers-Labradors, Chesapeake Bays and goldens -were on hand. All had gone through rigorous elimination trials to qualify...