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...Angeles' 4,200-member First Congregational Church (largest Congregational church in the U.S.) organized a fight against the council's ruling. As a test, the Cadman Memorial Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. filed suit, and for 23 court days and 3,000 pages of testimony Justice Stein brink listened to the subdued wrangling of ministerial witnesses...
...ears with a doleful cry: Why was there no publisher in America willing to take a chance on avant-garde writing? Laughlin went back to Harvard in 1934 with ideas of becoming a publisher. He collected a big eclectic bundle of literary odds & ends (by such writers as Gertrude Stein, Kay Boyle, Jean Cocteau, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens) and in 1936, while still in college, published them in one volume as the first New Directions annual. New Directions books and pamphlets quickly followed...
...Brooklyn manufacturer, he was one of the first U.S. painters to go to Paris. "They were just tearing down the exposition buildings of 1900," he says. "There were no automobiles then and you could buy a Chateaubriand for 30 centimes. I remember Leo and Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse, Alfy Maurer, Weber, Pascin, and John Marin, too. I used to think Marin was an Italian model: he never said a word, never fitted in with our crowd at the Cafe de Dome...
Probable Winthrop starting lineup: le, Stein; lt, Horihan; lg, Southerland; c, Byrne; rg, Boardman; rt, Nathan; re, Bisbee; qb, Couch; lh, Brook; rh, Kelly; fb, Hernberg...
Married. George Henry Hubert Las-celles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 26; and Marion Stein, 22, Austrian-born pianist; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...