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While the President was thus expressing his faith in the Constitution its sesquicentennial was also observed by the University of Michigan Press by the publication of a hitherto unprinted autobiographical sketch and a letter by the figure in U. S. history who was one of the Constitution's most vigorous interpreters: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U. S. from 1801 to 1835. Written in 1827 to furnish data about his life to Associate Justice Joseph Story, who was reviewing Marshall's History of the Colonies for the North American Review, the autobiographical sketch discovered five years...
Among watercolors promised for the present show was an exuberant sketch of Old Friends Hemingway and Max Eastman in their recent bosom-baring scuffle (TIME, Aug. 23). At the last minute Painter Peirce changed his mind, dropped The Foibles of Fisticuffs from his list. On view this week, however, are new paintings of circuses and county fairs, bright canvases done at Key West, two views of the Harvard Tercentenary celebrations at Cambridge last year, charming paintings of the children. Critics detected a deepening in his work, belying one of the numerous Peirce ballads which runs...
Last week Mrs. Ferguson learned how a son feels about having a columnist in the family. Benton Ferguson, now 27, in the advertising department of Scripps-Howard's Fort Worth Press, wrote for his paper an intimate sketch of his mother which ran alongside her column...
...boys of Shakespeare's theatre played women, so the boys of the Yiddish theatre have for centuries played old men. Muni made his stage debut at the age of eleven in Cleveland, as an old man in a sketch called Two Corpses at Breakfast. He took to the stage as naturally as a grocer's son takes to the counter. But his parents had other ambitions for him. To the Jews of that generation any kind of musician was higher in the social scale than an actor. Paul was to be a violinist. He took his lessons dutifully...
...accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes 21 newspapers and more than 100 periodicals, which he divided last winter with his brother, Lord Kemsley, who took the Daily Sketch, Sunday Times (no connection with the Times), several provincial and Scottish papers...