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...garde" literature. Eric Larrabee's excellent review of Robert Frost's new book stresses the fact that we must now turn away from the post-war despair literature of the last twenty years. This May issue is an excellent indication that the swing is taking place in the Advocate Sanctum, at least among the short story writers, who may not be dealing with current war themes, but have departed from the haunted degeneracy of the past few years...
...Houses use Newell Boathouse instead of Weld. If Newell were assigned to a group of House crews in rotating yeas, no unfairness would be created in the matter of walking distance to and from the respective boat house, and such an innovation, although it might destroy Newell as the sanctum sanctorum of the University crews, would far outweigh this doubtful disadvantage by relieving Weld of its late afternoon congestion...
...first time in its 22-year-history, the Art Directors Club this time crashed the gates of the holiest sanctum of the U.S. art world, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, proudly hung its 301 hand-picked covers and ads near the museum's austere obelisks and mummies. Trends...
...BODY IN THE LIBRARY -Agatha Christie -Dodd, Mead ($2). A female corpse discovered in the sanctum of an uxorious English colonel (retired) titillates the gossipy countryside, puzzles Scotland Yard no end, until Miss Marple, crown princess of spinster sleuths, takes an'unobtrusive hand. Genuine old-crusted Christie...
Last week Editor Daniels added a commentary on his Navy days: "Even when I was 'absent without leave' from the sanctum during the eight years as Secretary of the Navy in the Woodrow Wilson administration,'' chuckled old Josephus, "I thought of myself as managing editor of the Navy rather than as a Cabinet official...