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Dean Buck's lyrioism concerned the generation of veterans that is today returning to the University to pick up its loose ends. These veterans have already discovered that Harvard, as Gertrude Stein might say, is Harvard is Harvard is Harvard or is it. The place has changed, and you can't help noticing...
...Gertrude Stein wanted to help Americans understand the French better, so she wrote a new play: Yes Is for a Very Young Man. The young man who is yes very young goes into four acts which is not the same no not the same as Four Saints in Three Acts. She hoped that it would hit Broadway after it played Pasadena next March. "I think this play is very interesting," said Playwright Stein in Paris: it had a quarrel in every act, and "a love element . . . the young man . . . had a tendresse for his brother's wife, which...
...cracked up to be. Others: Persian Gulf Command, Joel Sayre's readable report on a supply front which has currently become a war front; American Guerrilla in the Philippines, Ira Wolfert; On to Westward, Robert Sherrod; The Vigil of a Nation, Lin Yutang; Wars I Have Seen, Gertrude Stein; Forever China, Robert Payne...
...Then came Paris. The Idahoan with the glittering eye and the positive manner ranged magnificently from salon to bordello, flaunting his cape and stick and Byronic collars, spitting critical fire, pinching the ladies and wagging his fierce red whiskers. He grew as famous as his neighbors, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. By the time he was 40 he had written 31 books. The stream of poetry, prose and French and Chinese translations swelled to a torrent. Then, the early '30s, Ezra Pound stepped abruptly out of his field...
Rudy Vallee, the Vagabond Lover, was singing the Stein Song With Yale-boy gusto. America's other favorite band, Paul Whiteman's, played a promising new song called With a Song in My Heart. Bing Crosby was touring in vaudeville. That week the stockmarket crashed, and Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt introduced a Chicago band to its customers. The band, fancily titled Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, played Stardust and My Blue Heaven. They still...