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...Author. Margaret Mead, 28, daughter of Economics Professor Edward Sherwood Mead (University of Pennsylvania), wife of British Anthropologist Reo Fortune, is Assistant Curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Between voyages of anthropological discovery she lives in Manhattan. She has no children...
Married. Margaret M. Eddy, daughter of famed Evangelist and Y. M. C. A. Leader Sherwood Eddy; and George Kerry Smith, an instructor at the King School, Stamford, Conn.; at Denishawn House (dance school) in Manhattan, where the bride was given in marriage by Dancer Ted Shawn (Mr. Eddy was in England writing a book). Before the ceremony Dancer Ruth St. Denis (Mrs. Shawn) danced a prayer of invocation before an altar of fiery dahlias...
Enterprising newspapers sent out reporters to put this question to theologians, psychologists, men-in-the-street. One opinion, printed in the New York Herald Tribune, came from Director George Herbert Sherwood of the American Museum of Natural History. Said he: "Presumably if anyone is to reach civilization at all, there must be one guide selected for the trip. If the two guides are equally effective, I should select the younger man as probably possessing the greater stamina. Under such circumstances, there is no doubt in my mind but that the leader should remain. There is little probability that...
...Field & Stream was made publisher and Mencken & Nathan found themselves editors. Under that regime many a now-famed author (examples: James Joyce, Lord Dunsany) was given his first U. S. audience. Others who were early recognized, if not actually discovered by Mencken & Nathan's Smart Set: Ruth Suckow, Sherwood Anderson. Ben Hecht, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Barry Benefield. Christopher Darlington Morley...
Among the representatives that will attend this year's conference are Richard Roberts of Toronto, Reinhold Niehbuhr, of the Union Seminary. New York, Raymond Calkins '90, of Cambridge, and G. Sherwood Eddy, of New York. The program scheduled provides for two platform addresses daily, one in the morning, and one in the evening on Round Top at sunset. The morning series will attempt to appraise certain central tendencies in contemporary life, and point out the place of the student in relation to them...