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...divides these into: the political scene at home and abroad, what men do and believe, familiar essays, the world of education and knowledge, America's cultural life, and some unorthodox thinkers. Represented are such authors as: Frank H. Simonds, Christian Gauss, Richard Cabot, Ellen Glasgow, Sherwood Anderson, Walter Prichard Eaton, and Henshaw Ward...
...Salant '35, of New York, N. Y., William A. Salant '37, of New York, N. Y., William V. Smith '37, of Medford, Mass., Sheldon C. Sommers '37, of Indianapolis, Ind., John A. Strauss '36, of New York, N. Y., Peter R. Viereck '37, of New York, N. Y., Sherwood L. Washburn '36, of Cambridge, Mass., William W. Waters '37, of Minneapolis, Minn...
...rooms in Manhattan or San Francisco, pawning his typewriter, finding a little brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times he seems as inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter of his day, but plain readers...
...Manhattan laboratory of Drs. Irving Sherwood Wright and Dean Moffat who reported the latest of several studies on cigarets and capillary constriction, men and women sat bolt upright with their hands stretched over a table high as their chests. Pointed at the transparent flesh around the finger nails was a special capillary microscope. Intermittently for three-hour tests, subjects held the pose and puffed at cigarets, suspended on slender reeds before their lips. Some of the cigarets were standard brands; others were de-nicotinized; still others were mentholated. Then, too, there were rolls of shredded paper containing no tobacco...
Editor Van Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back...